Category: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

A gambler is nothing but a man who makes his living out of hope.(Bolitho). In The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, the narrator introduces Simon Wheeler by asking for a man named Leonidas W. Smiley. Instead of indicating the narrator for the information that he asks for, Wheeler starts off with a tall tale…

In Mark Twain’s, ‘Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog’, the language used by the narrator allowed readers to grasp a tiny portion of how socially different people are on the west coast when compared to the east coast. Mark Twain was the epitome of what people would call the ‘southern gentleman’. He was courteous, and…

Samuel Longhorn Clemens, under the pseudonym Mark Twain, uses southwestern dialects and local vernaculars to create realistic characters that accurately reflect the people and familiar scenes of mid-nineteenth century Southern American life. In the stories The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and The Mysterious Stranger Twain uses dialect and the local vernacular as a…