Mark Twain’s marriage with Olivia Langdon in 1870 made him to move to Buffalo, New York and then later he migrated to Hartford, Connecticut. Though he had four children namely Langdon, Susy, Clara, and Jean, Langdon died in 1872. From 1872 to 1880 he gave many lectures in the Unites States as well as in England and the number of his audience gradually increased. They were attracted by his sense of humor and his ideas were strongly put forth without any hesitation. His style and impromptu speech
Walter Scott, and others. Those same adventures could be reenacted with his friends as well, and Clemens and his friends did play at being pirates, Robin Hood, and other imaginary adventurers. Among those companions was Tom Blankenship, an affable but poor boy whom twain later identified as the representation for the character Huckleberry Finn. There were local diversions as well fishing, picnicking, and swimming. A boy might swim or canoe to and explore Glasscock Island, in the middle of the Mississippi
In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer bases his life and actions on adventure. The dead Emmeline Grangerford painted tearful maidens and wrote verse about deceased kids in the romantic style. The Shepherdson and Grangerford families slay one another to maintain their family prestige. The over romantic temperament makes Mark Twain to indulge in some fun and amusement, and certainly, the chapters that deal with this theme are among the most entertaining part for the readers in the novel
Both To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are coming of age novels, set in the deep south of America, in the 1930s and 1830-40s respectively. These eras were times when racism was a given, and it was rare to find someone who wasn't intensely prejudiced. The novels are both bildungsromans, overseeing the emotional and, in Scout's case, literal growth of the young protagonists as they gain experience in their respective societies. The events of To