A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court Essay

After reading A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain, I realized that you can’t always continuously read a book for more than two hours. The book started with the prologue or as Mark Twain called it, “A Word of Explanation” starting on page 11. This section, as it should, introduces the main character and how they, or in this book’s case, he got into the situation he is in currently. Until chapter two, did the book finally grab my attention. It goes on to explain that this main character named Hank Morgan, who lived in the 19th century, thinks that he is in an insane asylum, only to find out that he had somehow gone back in time, to the 6th century, after being hit over the head with a crowbar. With a turn of events, Hank was able to convince King Arthur that he was indeed a wizard. The book goes on to explain how this time traveler was able to turn this seemingly land rid of commonsense to one closely related to our modern world. However, the book didn’t catch my interest all the time causing me to reread pages upon pages until I finally understood what I was reading, but did manage to capture my attention at some points, though very few and
This man, Hank Morgan of an unknown age, seemed to know how to easily make an explosive power with easily attainable materials in the 6th century as shown on pages 49 and 50. Hank also seems to be able to remember how to coin money, make newspapers, start a school, and more feats of “greatness”. How can someone remember when exactly a total solar eclipse is about to take place over 13 century’s ago? Although he is only off by one day, he seemed to remember the year and the time of this total solar eclipse. Hank also seemed to be able to easily understand all of the old english that would be spoken throughout the book. It doesn’t help the fact that he was from Connecticut, but he still seemed to be able to easily translate this old english into modern