... contradictory interpretations he presented. Simply stated, Twain's life reflects the contradictions he experienced in a country that was unable to live up to its own egalitarian rhetoric. The land of the free (except for slaves) and the home of the brave (and extremely violent and repressive) inculcated racial myths within Clemens during his antebellum childhood on the Mississippi that were slowly fractured ... ) How society confronts (or avoids) the truth defines the social norms and "determines- the outcomes for the various classes and castes within the society. In this sense no one is...

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