What Made Him Great

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter often called "the Great American Novel."

Twain was a revolutionary. He changed the way for American literature. He did it the American way as well. Traveling from the east to the west and taking what he had learned along the way to create amazing stories. The adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Fin are the most ironically recognized stories of our generations. The basis of these stories are from the adventures of Mark Twain from his early years of being a rambunctious child to the later years of understanding that the confederates were fighting over something he didn't believe in. He portrayed in his writings to styles of slavery, anger, manipulation, starvation, and greed. Both of these books were coming of age novels and are used for teachings nationwide in schools for all ages. People for years have tried to pull the books from schools saying it’s the wrong teaching for kids, but to me teaching isn't always about what's right but more of the fact of how to choose what's wrong. For example, in Huckleberry fin he shows Huck as a racist steeling kid who eventually realizes that steeling and racism is not what makes a man but for what he does with it. As quoted by William Faulkner, "the father of American literature". Before Mark Twain there were many who tried to embrace what American society had to offer but could not grasp the general public. Mark Twain was able to do this not only through these books but through his travels and preaching of these morals. People of Mark Twain’s era lived in such a conflicting time frame. With war, and racism, and religion all being questioned, Mark Twain used them all to teach and embrace change. If you were to type in Google what is one of the most recognized authors in the world Mark Twain’s name will come up. He helped change the views of many. Without his interpretation on Ulysses S Grants memoirs, he would of been one of the most hated Generals ever known. He is one of my favorite writers and this blog is a tribute to what he had done for us and memorial of his great achievements.

This link is a picture of the Mark Twain Memorial Tribe