Jeong #2

Mark Twain is the father of American Humor. His stories have the cruel sense of current day American humor. Movies such as Bruno depicts Twain's humor perfectly. Modern humor consists of making fun or taking pun at gays, celebrities, and the military. Twain had a way of making the topics of his time. Writing about the Mississippi River was the setting of most of his stories. He grew up in the south and wrote of the south. Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Fin had the setting partaking along the banks of the Mississippi River. Twain made fun of anything and everything he could. He writes of the western expansion and tells stories of the men slaying buffalo and getting chased by them, fictional tales of a man who loves betting and wins. The "news" of Mark Twain's era were subject to his criticism. He wrote with such swag that he was published throughout the world and was known for his "Americanism." It was Anne Hutchinson who had the first poems published, Ralph Waldo Emerson who sought for American culture, Edgar Allen Poe who defined short stories and made America known for its writers, but Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) was the father of modern day humor. He is the one responsible for all modern day humor. Comedians are the fruit of TWAIN.