The Jumping Frog Of Calavers County Analysis
When it comes to Mark Twain, this book used various forms of dialect and exaggeration. Combining these two forms of writing or literature increases the interest of the story as well as the humor. Mr.Twain switches the two every so often, which never leaves the reader bored or uninterested.Within the story of The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, it is literally a story about nothing, but the reader does not realize, because of the regional dialects of the different places which adds to the humorous portion of the text due to the way the characters speak. We see examples of this once the narrator goes to investigate about the supposed Leonidas W. Smiley, which leads to the introduction of Mr.Jim Smiley, who has nothing to do with Mr. Leonidas.
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She was allowed a head start, then stumble along until the end of the race, but then she suddenly started bolting ahead like crazy, wheezing and kicking up dust until she would win, but not by much. He also had a small Bull Dog named Andrew Jackson, that didn’t look like it could do anything, but as soon as somebody bet on him, he’d give the dog a signal and would manage to beat any better-looking dog in a fight. He had a trick of catching the other dog’s back leg in his mouth with a tight grip until the fight was over, and he would win. This worked until Andrew Jackson ended up in a fight with a dog that didn’t have any back legs. The dog not knowing what to do, gave Mr. Smiley a look like his heart was broken, crawled away and died.
If you couldn't already tell most of the tells about Mr.Jim Smiley are greatly exaggerated, which also add a sense of humor to the story. It goes to show and reflect what modern families and family reunions are like now. It shows how there's always that one relative who will be the one to sit back and tell all the ridiculous tells of the family. With each story and relative, the stories get more and more exaggerated and I believe Mr. Twain demonstrated this through Mr. Simon telling the stories of Mr. Jim
She was allowed a head start, then stumble along until the end of the race, but then she suddenly started bolting ahead like crazy, wheezing and kicking up dust until she would win, but not by much. He also had a small Bull Dog named Andrew Jackson, that didn’t look like it could do anything, but as soon as somebody bet on him, he’d give the dog a signal and would manage to beat any better-looking dog in a fight. He had a trick of catching the other dog’s back leg in his mouth with a tight grip until the fight was over, and he would win. This worked until Andrew Jackson ended up in a fight with a dog that didn’t have any back legs. The dog not knowing what to do, gave Mr. Smiley a look like his heart was broken, crawled away and died.
If you couldn't already tell most of the tells about Mr.Jim Smiley are greatly exaggerated, which also add a sense of humor to the story. It goes to show and reflect what modern families and family reunions are like now. It shows how there's always that one relative who will be the one to sit back and tell all the ridiculous tells of the family. With each story and relative, the stories get more and more exaggerated and I believe Mr. Twain demonstrated this through Mr. Simon telling the stories of Mr. Jim