A Unforseen Name Change (mark Twain)

“The Unforeseen Name Change”

Samuel Clemens, a humorist and novelist, is better known by the pseudonym Mark Twain. Mark Twain, born on November 30, 1835 into a small village in Florida Missouri. Florida, Missouri, a town so small that he later joked that he had increased the population by one percent. Mark Twain's parents, John Marshall Clemens and Jane (Lampton) Clemens, both southerners, and mark the couple's fourth son and sixth child. The Clemens’s moved to Hannibal, Missouri, in 1839 and believed them to be among the better families of the area (Wilson Company 1).

Hannibal, Missouri marks the place in which Mark Twain grew up and experienced so many of his famous childhood memories. Twain's readers can share and delight in many of these childhood memories through Twain's written works. Throughout his career many of Mark Twain's most well known and respected books are those in which Twain depicts his obvious love for his earliest childhood memories. Born into a poor family, Twain grew to love and respect the elders who thought the complex process of life. Mark Twain became truly one of the greatest American writers that survived the many collisions that faced Twain throughout his writing career.

Twain started life as newspaperman before turning his hand to short stories and novels, works that owed much to his journalistic ability to write concisely and capture dialogue brilliantly (Wilson Company 1). Many Authors respected twain and the types of work that he completed. Ernest Hemingway famously stated: 'all modern American Literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called “Huckleberry Finn” (Wilson Company 1). As Twain continued his writings he realized that being recognized by such other great writers, creates a great deal of comfort.

The decade of the nineties saw Mark Twain working with less steady nerves and therefore with less steady and unified an output than he had shown during the two previous decades. He returned to the saga of Col. Sellers in The American Claimant (1892), and to the saga of Tom Sawyer in Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894) and in