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Puddn'head Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins

Puddn'head Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins

Twain, Mark

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Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 1420947028
ISBN13: 9781420947021
Publisher: Digireads.Com
Published: Jan 1 2013
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Originally one story but divided into two, Puddn'head Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins is a combination of Mark Twain's light-hearted humor as well as his penchant for the melancholy. Pudd'nhead Wilson is a murder mystery set in the Antebellum South in Missouri, more specifically, on the Mississippi River. During infancy, a light-skinned black baby and a white-skinned baby were switched at birth by a slave mother. Because the black baby grows up thinking he is white, he is highly racist toward his slaves. The white baby, who thinks he is a slave, grows up with no guidance and makes a living stealing, drinking, and doing other immoral things. During a murder trial, the town lawyer Puddn'head Wilson is able to expose the boys' true identities. Formerly, though, the entire story was supposed to center around Those Extraordinary Twins Luigi and Angelo Capello. Twain admitted that their story was now less exciting than he had imagined, allowing their story to become more humorous. Even though Twain's love of twin confusion is one of Twain's favorite storytelling techniques, Puddn'head Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins is carried by themes of racism, Southern customs, and questions of identity. Although Twain is best known for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, many who read Puddn'head Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins find that it is actually one of the best Twain stories written.

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