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             steamboat pilot, and he would not return home until he had achieved this. He
             day-dreamed as a child and an adolescent about being a great pilot. Horace Bixby gave
             Samuel Clemens the name Mark Twain because it meant a depth of twelve feet. Twain
             wanted to navigate the Mississippi River. He paid Horace Bixby five hundred dollars to
             teach him how to achieve this (Bloom 155).
             Not only did Mark Twain have the ability to make others laugh, but he expressed
             his thoughts about life and his traumatizing realizations of the past through humor in his
             works. Twain's style of humor has traveled throughout the world over the years. His
             broad but subtle humor was tremendously popular (165).
             Life on the Mississippi is more than just a book about life on the river. It is also
             reflections on Twain's life. This book is a true experience of Mark Twain's traumatizing
             childhood. It was also a book that was referred to as his "steamboat book." Life on the
             Mississippi combines an autobiographical account
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