Samuel Longhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) sitt liv
Samuel Longhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) sitt liv, i korte trekk
Samuel was born November 30, 1835 in Florida. Where he lived for 4 years until his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri by the Mississippi. Was young Samuel saw the beautiful sights at the waterfront. And got inspiration for some of his books, like Tom Sawyer. Actually Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn is more like a biography of Samuel as a kid. He got a little education until he was 11 years old, but he learned a lot at the newspaperoffices and printshops he worked at, he didn't get more education then that.
In 1853, when he was 18 years old, he left home because he wanted to travel and see some new places. On a trip to New Orleans he talked a riverboat pilot into teaching him his skills. By the spring of 1859, he was a licensed riverboat pilot.
When the American civil war started, he tried not to get involved, so he moved to a town called Carson City in Nevada, were he tried to find gold or silver in the mining industry. But he failed as almost all golddiggers did. Then he joined the staff of a newspaper in Virgin city. He first wrote under the pen name "Mark Twain", that means two fathoms in riverboat talk (som betyr: to favner). "Mark Twain" wrote his first popular story in 1865, it was called "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County".
Samuel travelled as a reporter for many different newspapers, he travelled to Europe and sent many letters home to the states, they were collected in a book that were called such a strange thing as "The Innocents Abroad."
It became a big success. After traveling around for a time, Samuel decided to settle down. He met a girl named Livy Langdon, Livy was not only pretty and clever, but her family was very rich. After a while, Samuel Langhorn Clemens and Livy Langdon got married! They settled down in a place named Hartford in the state Connecticut. Where his father-in-law used 100.000 dollars and bought them a big house.
This period of his life was his most productive years as a writer. From 1873 to 1889 he wrote seven novels.
Samuel used a lot of words that wasn't usual that writers used, in his time. An example is that he used the word "nigger" in Huckleberry Finn. He said that he used the words to make the story "alive". After this many American writers started to use "no-words" like Samuel. But actually Samuel ment that everyone should have the same rights and respect, and that it didn't matter that they had an other skincolor or were a farmer instead of a doctor.
Samuel got more and more pessimistic as the years past by, and he lost some of the humour he once had. You could see in his last works that he attacked snobbishness and meant that all human motives were selfish. But that's not what Samuel Longhorn Clemens or Mark Twain (as he called himself in some occasions) is remember by. But for his great writings, and sense of humour.
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