life on the mississippi
'Life on the Mississippi', by Mark Twain, is a signet classic. It is a romantic history of the great Mississippi River and autobiography of Mark Twain's early days as a steamboat man. It has many interesting stories about nights on the watch and brawls between the men aboard. This is Twain's own experience on learning to navigate the mighty Mississippi.Mark Twain is one of America's greatest writers of all time. His real name was being Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He introduced us to the stories of 'The adventure's of Tom Sawyer', 'The Prince and the Pauper', and Mark Twain's finest novel 'Huckleberry Finn'. 'Life on the Mississippi' is 383 pages long. It has about forty lines on each page and nine to eleven words on each line. The book has a lot of southern dialect, which makes you feel the mood of the story, but is also harder to read. This book is much like Twain's later books in which it is intended for the more adventurous types so that you can follow the every move of young Sam. In my personal opinion, a trip down the Mississippi on a steamboat is quite boring and not adventurous. 'Life on the Mississippi' is much li
This book is unusual in the way that it is setup. It starts off talking about Sam's childhood and then goes to his adult years all in one chapter. The change over is not consistent. There is a time lapse there. This book is a non-fiction book that is not up to dates because like Twain said in the book the river is always changing. He was right about that. The book does have photographs, which were taken during the PBS-TV movie "Life on the Mississippi," in the middle of the book. 'new' in connection with our country, that we early get and permanently retain the impression that there is nothing old about it." I think this mean that people are changing with the times and that the are excepting as well. There are many characters in this. First there is young Sam. Sam is a young Mark Twain. Sam pays 500 dollars so he can ride along on a boat to learn the Mississippi so that he can one day become a steamboat pilot. Horace Bixby is the steamboat captain who took the cub Sam. Uncle Mumford is Sam's uncle who is a mate on a lot of boats, he was also at West Point for four years. Tom is also a young cub like Sam. He is also on
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Approximate Word count = 770
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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