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The Mark Twain Thesis - Online Term Paper

The Mark Twain Thesis

To look at that person on the honor role, who’s the best athlete,
has the newest car, and gets all the ladies. Or the person in art class who
continually produces the best art work and ruins the grade curve for the rest
of us. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good
example. Throughout his life Mark Twain continued to produce masterpiece
writing leaving no good example un-battered. A man who gets his dream job,
and is despised by the whole town of just dreamers. A person who’s
convictions are stronger than his flesh. And a seemingly harmless man, who
tells the story as it should be told and comes under the utter annoyance of the
narrator. ...

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how this man was
perpetually annoying, and how, “there was nothing generous about this fellow
and his greatness.” Like many of Twain’s writings this excerpt shows us a
man with convictions as he looks at a seemingly good example and puts it
under a different light.
Convictions that shine through in what could quite possibly be a
realistic situation (in Twain’s accounts of them) shimmer with imperfection.
In a part of Roughing It Twain brings us to a camp of three men. Under the
inclination that they are all about to die, these men start to ponder what they
could have done with the rest of their lives. They all end up making promises
to themselves that they fully believe they will not have to keep. Promises of,
“reform” and “examples to the rising generation.” In what would seem to be a
surreal end to a story of repenters continues on. These men find themselves in
a comical situation and end up surviving. So ...

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Added: 8/3/2005 05:01:09 PM
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