- Allocate $20,000 Johnson Dollars to the organizations of your peers.
- Hand in notes on speeches.
Mark Twain, "The Lowest Animal" (534)
1. What is
Twain’s overall purpose in this essay?
2. What
changes in human nature does Twain hope his satire will encourage?
3. Find at
least two examples of exaggeration in the essay.
4. In your
opinion, are Twain’s generalizations about people and their behavior valid,
partly valid, or invalid? Why?
5. "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and "The Lowest Animal": One of
these two Twain stories is Realist, the other is Naturalist. Which is which?
How do you know?
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