Mark Twain Childhood
Mark Twain is an American writer, journalist and humorist. The work of Mark Twain has for most part been described as youthful. The writer won a worldwide audience for his youthful tales such as ‘Adventures Of Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’. |
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Mark Twain was born in Missouri on November 30, 1835. His father was a Tennessee country merchant called John Marshall Clemens. Jane Lampton Clemens was Mark twain’s mother. Twain was born as the sixth of seven children in the family. Only three of his siblings survived childhood.
At the age of four, Twain’s family moved to Hannibal. Hannibal is a port town on the Mississippi river. It is said that it was the town of Hannibal that inspired fictional town of St. Petersburg in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
When Mark twain moved to Hannibal, Missouri was a slave state in the Union. This acquainted Mark Twain with the concept of slavery, a subject that was explored in Twain’s books later on.
Twain was just 11 when his father died of pneumonia in March 1847. To support himself and his family, Mark Twain began to work next year as the printer’s apprentice. He started to work as a typesetter in 1851. He even contributed articles and humorous sketches for the Hannibal Journal, a newspaper owned by his own brother Orion.
To sum up, mark Twain’s childhood was rather difficult. He kept on traveling with his family and started to work at an early age.
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