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Twain talks about the scripture ticket system, when a German boy memorizes three thousand lines of scripture, but is rendered little more than an idiot after that. It is an obvious sattire on the memonic education system, because the kid memorized but probably did not understand; or simply had devoted so much of his brain to learning these that he lacked the capacity for anything else. A less obvious one is at the end of chapter two, when the author is reflecting about a great law of human action. (He had discovered a...then they would resign.) Here he is sattiring the worth of relatively equivilant things when you add money, which, incidentally, can be used for more things, which are also relatively equal until you factor money into the equation. The point being, I think someone with better composition skills than I should factor in examples of Mark Twain's sattires into the page, and here were some starters.
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Ahem, anyways I came here to ask why no one added the sattire in here; one of the main things Samuel
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People must also note, that Mark Twain wrote an introduction at the beginning of the book to explain why he used the N-word and other satires, because of the controversy over letting children and high school students be exposed to that kind of stereo-typing and language. His argument was a fairly
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Agreed with the original printing, I added a link to a facsimile of 1st edition which should cover all citations. Since we go with the original printing: - I have taken out the ISBN to another print in the infobox. - Perhaps use the bookcover as a caption instead of the current frontispiece? The
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That is something rather notable; if you look around the only (and distant) connection with satire is under the satire article, where it (briefly) notes that Mark Twain was the most notable 19th century satirist. In fact, this article needs cleaning, so tomorrow I'll see to a spot of revision.
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