1. MARK TWAIN
David Holley
PROFESSOR OWENS
ENGLISH 1102
06 September 2013

2. Mark Twain Life Experiences
• Mark Twain born as Samuel L. Clemens
witnessed multiple murders in his young life.
• He witnessed a man who murdered a cattle
farmer and he also watched a slave die by a
white male that killed him with a piece of iron.
This inspired his story of Huckleberry Finn

4. • Twain was inspired to become wealthy to
support his family after watching his father
struggle through hard economic times to
support his family. His father worked multiple
jobs such as a Juror on a slave trial.
• This inspiration wasn’t only to make his family
wealthy, but it gave him great stories to tell in
his novels

5. • Twain wrote in his notebook in 1903-1904
“The time to begin writing an article is when
you have finished it to your satisfaction. By
that time you begin to clearly and logically
perceive what it is that you really want to say.”
• He also admits in an autobiography that in his
school boy days he “had no aversion to
slavery” and “was not aware that there was
anything wrong with it.”

6. • These tragedy times of slavery were his
reasons for writing Tom Sawyer and
Huckleberry Finn.
• He was not aware of the inspiration he had on
society when he wrote these novels. He wrote
them during a time where Previous Slaves
were subjects to motivated killings and
economical utilization.

8. • Huckleberry Finn showed the betrayals that
African Americans suffered during the
breakdown of modernization.
• After writing this story he was embarrassed by
his failure to acknowledge the racist world he
had grown up in.

9. • Twain took a journey to help inspire
him to write more stories by
traveling from the United States to
Europe, The Middle East, and
Hawaii.

10. • The novels inspired were:
• The Innocents Abroad
• A Tramp Abroad
• Roughing It
• Life on the Mississippi