ENGL 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Dipping Tobacco, Mark Twain, Twain
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Dr. garrett fall 2016 notes for exam 3 (lecture #12) Biographical information: born and raised in the south. He was apprenticed on a steamboat until he himself became a captain: moved out west in 1861. His father picked up the family and moved them after twain"s brother"s death. He joined a group of confederate soldiers, but never saw combat. Worked as a reporter on the sandwich islands (now known as hawaii: later he moved back east. This was where his writing was being read. There he fell in love with libby langdon. He had the opportunity to either invest in a printing machine or the telephone. He chose the printing machine and it tanked. Writing style: satirical ridicule for the sake of reform, vernacular dialogue was as normal people talk, picaresque the events happen independently, one after the other. The adventures of huckleberry finn: the story of huckleberry finn, tom sawyer"s best friend, highly satirical, pokes fun at the following:
