Mark Twain was a writer and became famous for his stories about child adventures, particularly Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. These two stories were wildly popular and still are today. These stories, paired with earlier works like the Jumping Frog of Calaveras County gave Twain the reputation of being a humorist, and a writer that leans toward children. His reputation would be tarnished later in his career, when he produced some works that were rather dark. Is it fair to change your view of him over a couple of works? To me it is, and I don't think he should be known just as humorist.
             Samuel Langhorne Clemens, also known as Mark Twain, was born to John Marshall and Jane Clemens, on November 30, 1835 in Florida Missouri. Twain moved to Hannibal, Missouri, on the banks of the Mississippi during his childhood. It was here where Twain reveled in life, living almost a carefree life. That was until his father John Marshall made bad business decisions, and ended up dying in 1847, when Twain was only twelve. This forced Twain to give up on his studies and become an apprentice as a typesetter for the local newspaper. That apprenticeship led him to a job with his brother, Orion Clemens. It wasn't long before Twain and his brother followed in their fathers footsteps and made bad business decisions, that made Twain leave the business. Twain then embarks on a trip from the Midwest to the East Coast and publishes works along the way. He rejoins his brother in Keokuk, Iowa, where they start another newspaper, this only lasted two years because Twain had other plans. He had plans to travel down the Mississippi, to New Orleans where he would get on a boat and travel to South America and write accounts for the Keokuk editor. While he was on his way down, he met a steamboat captain by the name of, Horace Bixby, He was so intrigued by Bixby he became a captain's apprentice for the next two year, and blew off his trip to South Ameri...