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Pudd'nhead Wilson: Summary

Pudd'nhead Wilson takes place on the banks of the Mississippi
around the first half of the 1800s in a city called Dawson's Landing.
Dawson's landing is a half days journey, per steamboat, below St. Louis.
Dawson's Landing is on the Missouri side of the Mississippi. Every house
in this city contained boxes, which were filled with flowers. When there
was room in the box a cat was always there.

The protagonist in this story would have to be Pudd'nhead Wilson
himself. From the second he moved there he was looked at as a bad man
because of his dumb remark about a dog. He made this remark in his early
days in Dawson's Landing. Pudd'nhead slowly gained his normal name back.
It took a very ...

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Dawson's
Landing. They judged him for what he said before even knowing him for very
long. You can't judge a person for one wrong thing that they said.
Pudd'nhead proves the rest of the town wrong when he solves a big murder
case by using one of his best abilties. The town should have never judged
him, yet instead listened to him and give him a chance. I would say the
people of Dawson's Landing would definitely qualify for the antagonist part.

Pudd'nhead Wilson comes to Dawson's Landing around 1830. He is
socializing with some people there when a stray dog starts snarling,
howling, and barking. Pudd'nhead makes says he wishes he owned part of the
dog so he could kill it. The people thought it was stupid because if you
killed one half the other half would surely die. So from that day forth
the people gave Dave Wilson a new name, Pudd'nhead Wilson. This did not
help Wilson at all. In fact his law career was dead because of his new
name.

The theme of this book would be; ...

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