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A 3 page research paper that offers an essay that discusses how the writing career of Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain) draws from his life experiences. A sentence outline of the essay is also offered. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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in Keokuk, Iowa. A) Clemens early writing largely consists of his accounts of his travels while working as a newspaperman. B) Clemens apprenticed himself as a riverboat pilot and
spent the next three years navigating the Mississippi. C) Clemens goes West again and his experiences provides material for Roughing It. III) First job as a reporter. In 1862,
Clemens became a feature writer for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise. A) A series of humorous travel accounts were written in the next several years. B) In 1867, Clemens
set sail on a grand tour of Europe and the Middle East. C) Writes Innocents Abroad. D) With this financial success, Clemens had sufficient security to marry Olivia Langdon in
1870. E) Tom Sawyer, as well as his later masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, draw on this experiences as a boy in Hannibal and Life on the Mississippi
is drawn directly from his experiences as a riverboat pilot. IV) Conclusion. As this brief synopsis of Samuel Clemens life illustrates, the work of the great American author
Mark Twain is drawn from details that Clemens garnered from his life and his astute and satirical powers of observation. His best writing entails his sense of "self-conscious irony," which
is "rooted in memory" (The West Film Project). Essay Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), who obtained fame and fortune under his pen name of "Mark Twain," was born on November
30, 1835 in the border state of Missouri and grew up in Hannibal, a small town on the Mississippi (Gribben). A one-time Mississippi steamboat pilot, in 1861, Clemens traveled west
with his brother. He also lived in the East, on Nook Farm in Hartford, Connecticut (Gribben). From all of these experiences, Clemens garnered the raw material for his writing. Of
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