... what makes the story great. A reader can assert that the simple techniques, in which, the author used were perfectly constructed: plot, theme, sequence, and etcetera. When a reader looks back on literature and understands that an author carefully wrote a story analyzing these tools; a person begins to reveal that a certain author is great. To understand the extraordinary talents and greatness' of Samuel Clemens ... that would provide Clemens with his' pseudonym, that would last for generations to come. He was required to anticipate the force of the current going upstream and downstream m...

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• Grade Level: High School

... results in prosecution of the "guilty- and compensation of the "innocent."" But even the potential detective hero (Wilson) shows how easily one succumbs to a belief in racial predisposition when he notes early in the book how Roxy's superstitious drop of black blood causes her to avoid the fingerprinting process. [Whether we as readers, or Twain as author, are able to escape ... seems obvious that his art is extremely relevant and enlightening for those who pursue him well beyond the surface level of his writing. But one can also see how such literature can be engaged in ways that prese...

• Word Count: 3141
• Approx Pages: 13
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate