Mark Twain Essay Although Mark Twain created his characters with harsh racist ideals, these ideals are exactly what made Twain's writing so true to life. Twain used realism in his writing to shock and educate his readers. Before Twains writing, literature was thought to be more of an entertainment rather than an education. People wanted to hear fantasy depicting a perfect world with a fine line between the good and the bad. When people began …showed first 75 words of 1108 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1108 total…detail, and vulgar expressions, and our nation should thank him for it. Through these true to life descriptions, Twain was actually able to change, if only just slightly, the sociology of a nation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Works Cited "Hal Holbrook: Mark Twain Tonight!," Kultur, New Jersey. "Huck Finn." Culture Shock, PBS, Denver, CO., 1998. Twain, Mark. Life on the Mississipi: The Boys' Ambition. Twain, Mark. Roughing It: Lost in a Snowstorm. Twain, Mark. Roughing It: Tom Quartz.