Essays on The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

Although “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain develops its theme of one does not have to be educated to be clever, through allusions, “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving better develops the theme of greed can lead to moral...

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...

Introduction 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...