It was inspired from his previous beloved career twain means two and when combined with mark, it is a riverboat-slang which pertains to the ‘two fathoms or 12 feet which is indicated by a line with a second mark that signifies the deepness that is safe for boats’. He loved this career dearly but he was stopped due to the Civil War and this pushed him to change his path and retreat back to his career in writing when he moved to Western America which was when he started to use the phenomenal pen name that the world knows. He was 21 years old when he learned to pilot a steamboat in the Mississippi and became licensed two years later. Louis for a printer’s job but he became a river pilot’s apprentice instead. When he turned 13, he left school to end their crisis and this is when he became a printer’s apprentice, and then, a printer and editorial assistant which signified the remarkable start of his love for writing. When his father, John, died when he was 12 years old due to pneumonia, they experienced a financial crisis. November 30, 1835-John Marshall and Jane Lampton Clemens’ sixth child named Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born at a small village in Missouri, Florida and unbelievably, later on, he was known to be the world-renowned writer who fabricated the words and stories to formulate some of the greatest literary pieces the world has ever seen Mark Twain.Īlmost all throughout his childhood, Twain and his family lived near the Mississippi. Together, the mischievous Huck and the kind-hearted yet enslaved Jim set sail towards the freedom and adventure they both aspire as they discover a long-lasting friendship with one another. Friendship, freedom, and adventure-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is about the journey of a boy named Huck through the Mississippi River as he frees himself from his abusive father by faking his own death and as he helps free his new-found friend Jim who is a slave escaping from his master.
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