"Life on the Mississippi"

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In this paper the author looks in-depth at the famous book written by Mark Twain,"Life on the Mississippi". The paper examines the life led by people who lived alongside the Mississippi how they would wait for a steamboat to pull up to bring them news and goods. The author looks at Mark Twain as one of the most qualified to know about river life as he grew up in that area. In looking at the book, the author also surmises that life on the river led to the birth of a very different America, one where business and industrialization were advanced.

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"As a cub-pilot, Twain became enamored of the technicalities of the work, the sounding, the danger when the river rose, but the chief attraction of the work was that, . . ."a pilot in those days, [i.e., before the Civil War] was the only unfettered and entirely independent human being that lived in the earth." (118) Once under way, the boat was under the unquestioned control of the pilot."

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