Mark Twain

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in Tennessee", the author described a messing journalism; the editor was completely nonsense and arrogant, while the readers persisted unreasonably and even fighting with the editor. "The chief" and "the colonel" use their pistols shooting each other, but the bullets always "end their career" in "my body" Both pistols rang out their fierce clamor at the same instant. The chief lost a lock of his hair, and the Colonel's bullet ended its career in the fleshy part of my thigh. This is completely a farce! From the beginning to the end, the author had used his great imagination to make the story more ridiculous.

Second, Mark Twain's humor was not just for amusement, but was a sharp weapon to criticize the evilness of society. He satirized the Sunday-school book, the unfair world in "The Story of the Bad Little Boy" and "The Story of the Good Little Boy". In these two books, he talks about two boys: one is a bad boy, Jim who always does bad things, he never follows the good ...

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