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A 5 page paper which examines the humor techniques employed by Mark Twain, including the citation of internal situations found in such works as “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” “Roughing It” and “The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson.” Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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He was frequently broke and unemployed, and lost three of his four children in either infancy or adolescence. Nevertheless, he still managed to find the humor in the
world and people around him, and it was this irreverence he happily shared with the world. Twains humor was typical of nineteenth-century comedy, and usually structured around a satirical
narrative (Yosifon 683). As twentieth-century humorist Russel Baker observed, "Twains was the voice of the countrys frontier newness, brashness, vigor, disdain for the polite and genteel. It was
voice that enjoyed shocking the squeamish, mocking the piously upright" (105). The post-Civil War America in which Mark Twain flourished took itself very seriously, and he regarded it as
his mission in life to "lighten it up." He understood that humor in America was different than in other parts of the world because, "The American story-teller... is apparently
unconscious of the effect of the joke. The method is quieter, more modified, and more subtle" (Mark Twain Talks Mostly About Humor and Humorists). Simply put, humor was
not simply emphasis on a punch-line, but was about the story itself. It had to be about something (or someone) with which (or whom) the audience and readers were
well-familiar, spoken in a regional dialect they could easily understand. According to Twain, "Humor must not professedly teach, and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both
if it would live forever. By forever, I mean thirty years. With all its preaching it is not likely to outlive so long a term as that.
The very things it preaches about, and which are novelties when it preaches about them, can cease to be novelties and become commonplaces in thirty years. Then that sermon
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