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The Invalid’s Story By: Mark Twain

The Invalid’s Story By: Mark Twain. Group: Jennifer Winslow Aleigha Withrow Marina Seamans Nina Santana Tristian Smith. Author Biography.

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The Invalid’s Story By: Mark Twain

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  1. The Invalid’s StoryBy: Mark Twain Group: Jennifer Winslow Aleigha Withrow Marina Seamans Nina Santana Tristian Smith

  2. Author Biography Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, grew up in the town of Hannibal, Missouri. Clemens took the name Mark Twain at age twenty seven. A childhood memory inspired him to take this name. “By the mark-twain” was a cry heard on the river boats which meant two fathoms deep. By: Aleigha Withrow

  3. Author Biography Under this name, Twain wrote some of the most beloved fiction in American literature. Some of his most famous books include “Tom Sawyer,” and “Adventures of Huckleberry Fin.” Mark Twain wrote many stories in his lifetime, including “The Invalid’s Story.” By: Aleigha Withrow

  4. Literary Analysis • Dialogue is a conversation between or among characters in a literary work. In prose, dialogue is usually set off by quotation marks, and a new paragraph indicates a change in speaker. Writers use dialogue for these purpose: • To reveal character traits and relationships • To advance the action of the plot and develop the conflict • To add variety, color, and realism to narratives • By: Marina Seamans

  5. Literary Analysis Continued: • To make characters and settings more vivid, authors may write dialogue reflecting character’s dialect. Dialect is a way of speaking common to people of a region or group. A dialect’s words, pronunciations, and grammar differ from those of the standard form of language. • As you read, notice passages of dialogue and dialect, and determine what they show about the characters and the setting. • By: Marina Seamans

  6. Cause The Narrator and Thompson burn chicken feathers, apples, tobacco, and sulfur in the middle of the floor in the train. Mental Picture Effect The two men get sick and then when the stops the Narrator goes home to die. • There are two men in the middle of the floor on a train setting a fire to things. By: Nina Santana

  7. Vocabulary • Prodigious- enormous Ex: The fact is that without my suspecting it a prodigious mistake had been made. • Deleterious- harmful health or well-being Ex: I was sure that the effect would be deleterious upon my poor departed friend. • Judicious- showing good judgment Ex: It seemed judicious to enlarge the facts to fit the probabilities. By: Aleigha Withrow

  8. Vocabulary 4. Placidly- calmly; quietly Ex: Then he went right along, placidly ignoring my statement. 5. Desultory- random Ex: Thompson fell to maundering, in a desultory and low-spirited way. By: Aleigha Withrow

  9. Exposition: • Setting: • Winter night • On a train on its way to Wisconsin • During a snow storm • Introduction: • The narrator’s best friend John B. Hackett dies. His dying wish is to have his remains transported to his parents in Wisconsin by the narrator. • By: Marina Seamans

  10. Characters: • Protagonist: The narrator: He is 41 years old and a bachelor. He was a loyal friend. Not observant. • Antagonist: Smell: Limburger cheese. • Support: John B. Hackett (the dead guy), Thompson: Superstitious, old • By: Marina Seamans

  11. Conflict: • The two men try many tactics in an attempt to fight the smell of the “corpse.” • By: Marina Seamans

  12. Goal/Objective The main goal is to get the remains of John Hackett’s body to his parents in Wisconsin. As the story unfolds, the goal of the story turns into getting rid of the smell instead. Jennifer Winslow

  13. Plot Complications • The coffin and a box full of guns are switched. • They try to get rid of the smell. • Thompson gets a whiff of Limburger, takes one for the team. By; Jennifer Winslow

  14. Climax: The two men burn the chicken feathers, apples, tobacco, and sulfur to get rid of the smell. By: Nina Santana

  15. Falling Action • 1.) The Narrator and Thompson leave the train car. • 2.) The Narrator and Thompson find out that they will get Typhoid fever. • 3.) The Narrator discovers that the box was full of guns, not a body. • Tristan Smith

  16. Resolution The Narrator gets sick from the things he and thompson burned. Then the Narrator goes home to die By: Tristan Smith

  17. Theme The theme of the story is mortality. The story is filled with sickness and death. It is centered around transporting a corpse to it’s parent’s house. Thompson even said, “we’ve all got to go, there ain’t no getting around it. There are also references to the inevitability that death will come. By: Jennifer winslow

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