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Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain

past, the events of his Personal life

further demonstrate
As his literature provides insight into the
his lifetime, Sam watched a Young United
States
his role as an eyewitness to history, During
the country'S vast
of international power. He experienced
evolve from a nation (0) E- to one
to industri a\ization, the end of slavery,
growth and change _ from westward expansion
he often had
and foreign wars, And along the way
advancements in technology, big government
something to say.
SamuelClemenswasbornonNovernber30,1835inFlorida'Missouri,thesixthofseven
town of Hannibal'
children. At the age of four, Sam and
his family moved to the small frontier
fairly new state (it had gained statehood
in 1820) and
(1) --. Missouri at the time, was a
comprisedpartofthecountry,swesternborder.Itwasalsoaslavestate.Sam,sfatherownedone
Sam sPent many
and his uncle owned several. In fact, it was on his uncle's farm that
slave
boyhoodSummers(2)-,listeningtotalltalesandtheslavespiritualsthathewouldenjoy
throughout his life.
having completed
died. Shortly thereafter he left school'
In í84] ,when Sam was 11, his father
Stories,
job was to arrange the type for each of the newspaper,S
the fifth grade, (3) --.-. His
world (4)
allowing Sam to read the news of the
Philadelphia where he worked on several
At 18, Sam headed east to New York City-, and
on a new career aS a
newspapers (5) By 1857, he had returned home to ernbark
different
1861' however' all
With the outbreak of the Civil War in
riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River.
-. did Sam,s pilot career. Inspired bY the
times, Sam joined
traffic along the river came to ahaít,as
the Marion Rangers, (6) ----,
a volunteer Confederate unit called
of his brother,
west in July of 1861, at the invitation
In search of a new career,Sam headed
rush, Sam
infectious hope of striking it rich in Nevada,s silver
orion, (7) _.Lured by the
the journeY Sam
travelled across the open frontier from
Missouri to Nevada by stagecoach. Along
for the first time (s) =- These events would find a way
encountered Native American tribes
Roughing It,
into his short stories and books, particular|y

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