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... He was a man who often wrote about subjects that people considered taboo in his day. ... Twain spent most of his childhood in nearby Hannibal, Missouri on the shores of the Mississippi River, a setting that would appear in his most famous works. ...
Mark Twain, after wandering between New York, Washington, Philadelphia, and Iowa as a journalist, decides to fulfill one of his boyhood fantasies of becoming a river pilot. Twain falls under the apprenticeship of Horace Bixby, pilot of the Paul Jones, and becomes a licensed river pilot at the age of twenty-four (Wood). The nomadic, adventurous life as a river pilot heavily influences Twain’s writing, most notably from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The tales of others from the river combine with Twain’s tales and experiences create the plot twists of his some of his novels. The time as a river pilot is one of the most influential periods in Mark Twain’s life. ... Tom then forms a gang with Joe Harper and Huck, and they run away to Jackson Island, which is located in the middle of the Mississippi River. The entire town assumes that the three boys had drowned in the river and make preparations for their funerals. ... Tom shouts at the man, who is Injun Joe, and not recognizing Tom’s voice Injun Joe runs away. ...
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court is a story about a man who finds himself displaced in the year 528. ... The town decides to sell “Tom” “down the river” to pay off debts of his real father. ... Twain was not a man to abstain from writing about a subject for which he had strong emotions.
Approximate Word count = 2202
Approximate Pages = 8.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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