In this paper, Leeb discussed a common "yarn" that presented itself in Young Goodman Brown, The Man that Corrupted Hadleyberg, Monster, and The Devil and Daniel Webster. ... He started his journey as a sane, pious man but was eventually corrupted by the devil and the horrible truths he was forced to face. ... His short story "The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg" showed his ability to expose the negativity of human frailty, but at the same time make it funny. In "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg", people who claim they are innocents are put to the test when a stranger gets into the smug regi...

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An example of the tall tale in The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is when Wheeler describes Smiley as a man who will make a bet on anything, even something as dumb as which of two birds will fly off of a fence first (Wilson 22). ... The following paragraphs will give you examples from four different stories, The Adventures of Huck Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg. ... Tom is a character who can't sit still in church or in school. ... Huck admits to the older man that he worries about...

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