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1.2.Brief information of the works of Mark Twains?
Learn about Mark Twain’s Writing Style, his humorous satire and his famed use of vernacular dialogue, as well as our great learning resources. Mark Twain’s writing style is characterised by humour, strong narrative and evocative descriptions, as well as a brilliant control of vernacular speech. Mark Twain was a humorist, journalist and novelist who became famous internationally for his distinctive style of travel and fictional narratives. In particular, his novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1883) were widely enjoyed. Mark Twain was the master of dialect. He ear for dialect is phenomenal because in both of his more known works, "Huckleberry Finn" and "Tom Sawyer" there are some 21 regional dialects involved--so those who read the books superficially never realize the amount of authenticity involved. Mark Twain also was one of the original writers of SF Chronicle so actually he did a lot that people do not credit him and he had very keen eye for reality and the skill to make clean sketches of it so that the reader feels directly involved in the even going on. He was a humanitarian and highlighted the inequalities of social snobbery, racism and no great love for slavery or human exploitation. If you think that he left home, was uneducated and established himself as one of the greatest novellist of English literature-- you have to step back and admire him because he is the father of a long line of future journalists or social commentators such as Steinbeck. his novels document very accurately society at his time, so he is used as social history in literature to give good reflection of actual society t his time because he was not an idealist or romanticist. He was also a writer who helped spawn the tradition of whodunnits and westerns and a tremendous travel writer. He was known as great essayist, so anyone who only reads "Tom Sawyer" or "Huckleberry Fin" has very superficial view of his overall work because whatever he wrote, like Kipling he knew and understood the technical details. His essay "Life along Mississippi" is very accurate account of what it took to navigate the river with photographic detail of navigation and technical problems of soundings. Twain was first and foremost a journalist, so his eye for detail and ability to narrate a story is incredibly vivid because he does it in cinematic detail, even if it is the Jumping Frog. People brush him off for the two books, but they don't stop to think about the risks or controversy he probably raised in writing those two books because it's not Tom who is the hero-- it's the slave and really very little could be stronger than this in protesting human rights or recognition of gross injustice in the world. He used the perople who were reviled and social outcasts and identified their plights and the hardships of their lives and so impacted social thinking. Kipling did much the same, but in Kim he used the boy who was outcast because of his mixed race… So Mark Twain probably influenced and is father to those other great writers such as Steinbeck and Upton Sinclair-- the social protestors who brought the ugliness of American social class into the face of society. Probably even Dreiser was influenced by Twain, so it's very hard to discount somebody who was uneducated and yet became one of the major writers in American letters and took American literature/ writing to the world. He befriended writers, supported writers and wrote a lot of literary criticism. He was master of all genres which in itself amazing. He totally influenced publishing industry by the issue of his sketchbooks which offered a smattering of everything because he felt that a literary publication should appeal broadly to all readers. His works are so extensive that there isn't a complete authoritative list and he used more pseudonyms than any other known writer and his use of Mark Twin is used officially s his name because it is the one he used most often and the bulk of his work falls under this name. So it's very very hard to overrate Mark Twain, but few ever seriously look at his extensive work or the influence he had on society or American politics or recognize his technical skills as a writer. He is the "father of American Literature" and probably even those other two giants, Henry and William James were influenced by him. Writing about Twain or commenting on Twain requires a lot of knowledge on literature and a great deal of background in history. His writing about his own adventures, such as The Innocents Abroad (1869), was also celebrated and marked by a distinctive writing style. That his travel writing and his fiction writing are similarly marked by his style shouldn’t be too surprising. A grip on dialogue and vernacular dialect, and an interest in a variety of different people that inform his fictional characters, helps to distinguish Mark Twain’s writing style. Mark Twain began writing light and humorous verse. As he developed his writing style, Mark Twain changed his subject matter as well. His main writings, such as the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, feature humour, strong plots and social criticism. Mark Twain was an American writer and humorist who wrote famous novels including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. These books were written in 1876 and 1884. Mark Twain’s real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, but preferred to write under his pen name of Mark Twain. He was born on November 30, 1835 in the state of Missouri in the United States. He worked in various trades over his life, including printing and typesetting, riverboat piloting and mining, before earning acclaim for his writing and lectures. Vernacular Dialogue - Mark Twain’s characters often have a fully realised vernacular dialogue that can surprise readers. Twain uses lots of slang and local terminology to help create an impression of the setting, and to support the sense of an easy-going narrative. The vernacular in Mark Twain’s writing style also serves to develop his fictional characters. In The Prince and the Pauper, Twain makes use of an antique British vernacular to create an impression of 16th century England. Here the dialogue, which differs between the two main characters, puts the class differences between them into stronger relief. While the dialect of the pauper includes more colloquial slang, the formal dialect of the nobility includes phrases with exaggerated formality, such as, “Learning softeneth the heart and breadth gentleness and charity”. Vivid Imagery - Mark Twain’s writing is also characterised by his vivid descriptions. Take a look at the emotive language in this excerpt about the landscape in the United States from his travel narrative Innocents Abroad: "Then thirteen hundred miles of desert solitudes; of limitless panoramas of bewildering perspective; of mimic cities, of pinnacled cathedrals, of massive fortresses, counterfeited in the eternal rocks and splendid with the crimson and gold of the setting sun; of dizzy altitudes among fog-wreathed peaks and never-melting snows, where thunders and lightnings and tempests warred magnificently at our feet and the storm-clouds above swung their shredded banners in our very faces!” Twain’s energetic language helps to situate the reader in the setting he is describing. It’s exaggerated, romantic and rolls with a rhythm that’s fun to read. In 2015, researchers uncovered a cache of Mark Twain stories that hadn’t been read for over 150 years. It was Mark Twain’s writing style that helped the researchers figure out the authorship of some of the letters in the collection. Mark Twain is remembered as one of the best American writers. Many other prominent authors such as Ernest Hemingway emphasize Mark Twain’s influence on American literature. Mark Twain helped to shift expectations of different genres with his original writing. In Tom Sawyer, the picture of childhood that Twain created was uncommon among his peers. It treated childhood as a period of mischief and fun, rather than a time best spent obeying adult rules. Mark Twain similarly helped to redefine the genre of travel writing with his subjective and funny narratives. In The Innocents Abroad he emphasized that he was trying to suggest to the reader “how he would be likely to see Europe and the East if he looked at them with his own eyes.” Resources to support your teaching about Mark Twain’s writing style We have lots of handy resources that you can use to introduce your children to the writings and writing style of Mark Twain. You can use this great Narrative Writing PowerPoint to get your children thinking about stories, and how they can use their imagination to craft narratives. This Writing to Tell a Story Poster is a useful resource for encouraging children to plunge into the creative writing process. Perfect as a display piece as well as something your children can keep or stick into their books! You can use this Y3 NAPLAN Narrative Writing Annotated Example Poster to support your children’s preparation for NAPLAN narrative writing. It outlines the main features of the subject, and helps your children to identify structures, setting, punctuation and more. This Year 3 Narrative Writing Adventure Story is great as a writing prompt or a subject of study. If learning about Mark Twain has you thinking about travel teaching materials that you can use with your children, then you might enjoy this Travel Display Photos resource. At 17, Samuel left Hannibal and found print work in St Louis, New York, Philadelphia and Cincinnati. Then in 1857, he returned to study for two years to become a riverboat pilot. But 1861 saw the end of Samuel’s river days once the Civil War started. He moved west to join the Confederate Army, although he left before fighting began. After working briefly as a miner, he became a reporter for the Territorial Enterprise in Virginia City, Nevada, and began writing short stories under the name Mark Twain. These funny tales were full of adventure.
Mark’s first popular story – ‘The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County’ –was published in 1865. It received international acclaim and soon Mark was one of the most famous American celebrities of his day. He was asked to write his first (and best-selling) book ‘The Innocents Abroad’ (1869) about his travels, and other works followed including ‘Roughing It’ (1872), ‘The Prince and the Pauper’ (1882), and ‘Life on the Mississippi’ (1883). In 1870, Mark married 24-year-old Olivia Langdon, the daughter of a rich coal merchant. They settled in Buffalo, New York, and had three daughters and a son. Their son sadly died in infancy. Parenthood led to Mark’s famous ‘river novels’ for children. He read each chapter to his family as he wrote them. ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’ (1876) and its sequel ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ (1884) tell the adventures of two boys on the Mississippi River. Huckleberry Finn, in particular, has been called ‘The Great American Novel’ – a tale of a white boy helping a black man to escape slavery in the southern US. It was also one of the first novels to feature the colloquial (everyday) language of its characters. Mark Twain's "river books" have been banned in places as some characters in them use offensive, racist language that was common at the time of writing. Mark’s writing earned him a lot of money, but he lost most of it by investing in risky ventures. In 1895, he began a world tour giving lectures to pay off his debts, which he did in 1898.