Analyzing Mark Twain's Essay 'Tone Opinions'
Bryanna Rivera
Rivera 1
ApEnglish
Mrs. Padilla
12/13/14
In Mark Twain’s essay “CornPone Opinions” he uses different strategies to express his position on how people’s actions and thoughts are excessively influenced by others. He changes the pronoun “I” to “we”. Twain does this by first explaining his own opinion then addresses everyone else as a collaborative group in order to support his point. He basically states that people follow trends whether they like them or not. He gives a few examples to support his point. The anecdote that Twain uses of a young slave named Jerry that had such a talent for preaching helps introduce his argument in an interesting way.
Twain carries the idea that men are made up of society’s thoughts and opinions. Twain feels that …show more content…
Corn Pone Opinions are the group of belief with which we each join as an impulsive mode to fit in, as Twain says, "the instinct that moves to conformity did the work. It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist; what is it's seat, the inborn requirement of selfapproval.”
In corn pone opinions, twain uses a few extra long sentences. He does this in order to inform us that we can’t be independent and that we eventually rely on other people.Twain uses a declarative sentence, with the telegraphic sentence that he uses, he try’s to transmit to us that
people feel more comfortable being around people, than being alone. Throughout the essay he also uses a few semicolon Rivera
2
to emphasize an opinion as an original one. He then uses a comma to back up what an original opinion is and how it’s
Rivera 1
ApEnglish
Mrs. Padilla
12/13/14
In Mark Twain’s essay “CornPone Opinions” he uses different strategies to express his position on how people’s actions and thoughts are excessively influenced by others. He changes the pronoun “I” to “we”. Twain does this by first explaining his own opinion then addresses everyone else as a collaborative group in order to support his point. He basically states that people follow trends whether they like them or not. He gives a few examples to support his point. The anecdote that Twain uses of a young slave named Jerry that had such a talent for preaching helps introduce his argument in an interesting way.
Twain carries the idea that men are made up of society’s thoughts and opinions. Twain feels that …show more content…
Corn Pone Opinions are the group of belief with which we each join as an impulsive mode to fit in, as Twain says, "the instinct that moves to conformity did the work. It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist; what is it's seat, the inborn requirement of selfapproval.”
In corn pone opinions, twain uses a few extra long sentences. He does this in order to inform us that we can’t be independent and that we eventually rely on other people.Twain uses a declarative sentence, with the telegraphic sentence that he uses, he try’s to transmit to us that
people feel more comfortable being around people, than being alone. Throughout the essay he also uses a few semicolon Rivera
2
to emphasize an opinion as an original one. He then uses a comma to back up what an original opinion is and how it’s