The Mark Twain Thesis
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To look at that person on the honor role, who’s the best athlete,
has the newest car, and gets all the ladies. Or the person in art class who
continually produces the best art work and ruins the grade curve for the rest
of us. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a go ....
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.... Twain tells us of a man with a dream. As imperfection has it this
man’s dream did not come true. But his friend’s similar dream , however,
did. The narrator tells us through a blanket of jealousy how this man was
perpetually annoying, and how, “there was nothing generous about this fellow
and his greatness.” Like many of Twain’s writings this excerpt shows us a
man with convictions as he looks at a seemingly good example and puts it
under a differen ....
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Page count: 3 (approximately 250 words per page)
