Summary of Mark twain ----Mirror of America

Mark twain is considered as the nation’s best –loved author ,the father of Tom and Huck, in people’s eyes he is great writer with a personality of adventure ,patriotism, romanticism ,and humorousness. However, to the author he kept the point that Nark was the person who was cynical, acid for his tragic life, Besides ,he was upset with weakness of the human beings. He was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens and experienced a lot that he ranged across the nation for more than a third of his life. In his early years ,he spent his youth in working in the Mississippi River. As a little pilot he began to recognize the world of the day. Through contact all kinds of characters Mark began to recognize not only the human beings but the differences between people’s words and the behavior. Then with a tuning point come to him ,he left the steamboat and went to the Confederate guerrillas because of the railroads’ development .After having been a soldier there for 2 weeks ,he left them for their retreating. In the west area he infect at the gold and silver fever, but he was defeated by the reality and then got a job as a journalist. Then he left the territorial Enterprise and came to San Francisco. It was the cradle to many an ambitious young writer.

In 1864-1865, the Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County was published and he became famous. 2 years later the opportunity came for him to take a distinctly American look at the old world. He was assigned to accompany the tourist in a country’s development as a correspondent for  a California newspaper, and soon became well known .

At the age of 36 he  moved to Hartford, Conn. where he lived his most productive years (till 1891), during which he wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Besides these two children's classics, he wrote many other important works in his life, among which were Roughing it. He suggest that an  ingredient was missing in the American ambition. Personal tragedy haunted his entire life, bitterness fed on the man who made the world laugh, he also insist that man drop his religious illusions and depend upon himself to make a better life. The last of his own illusions seemed to have crumbled near the end ,on men’s final release from early struggle, he commented with despair that a world which lament them a day for-get them forever.