Literary analysis, the very mention of those words makes anyone shudder and shudder I did. I had no clue which author I would choose; the fact was I hated non-fiction. I had been forced to read non-fiction since the 5th grade. It was boring, unimaginative, and rather rigid. I searched through my bookshelf and chanced upon a book of short stories by Mark Twain, perfect! Someone from the list, Mark Twain would be better then …showed first 75 words of 1986 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1986 total…false! Satire, in this case, is used to express that people will believe anything they hear despite the person who is telling the story. The information we hear will always hold some truth but how much we could never know. By showing this common element in all of Mark Twain's writing, you can see that he truly was a master of, not only writing, but also of the use of satire in everything he created.