My Book Review on The Mysterious Man
             Mark Twain's fiction novel, The Mysterious Man is about an angle that comes to a town in Austria during the Middle Ages. The angle goes there to help the priest Father Peter out of a rut, which the evil astrologer had put him into. The mysterious angle also helps others along the way mostly by killing them to put out their misery. The story line is intensely interesting. It contains of life threatening situations for some of the characters twisted with soaring imagination. The theme is that everything is nothing but a dream. The author's style exhibits fantastic foreshadowing, metaphors, word choice, organization, and sentence fluency.
             My favorite character is the angle named "Satan" who is eternal. He endures magical powers that allow him to travel through time and space and create whatever he wishes even the future. Satan visits the town only when he desires and is known to the public as "Philip Traum." ("Traum" is German for "Dream.") This false name happens to suite him very well since he works wonders. Only three people in the town know what he really is and that he is behind the mischief that has been occurring. The three lucky individuals who
             know Satan are Nickolaus Bauman, Seppi Wohlmeyer, and Theodor Fischer. Theodor is the main character; the story is written from his point of view. Satan amazed the boys with his magical gifts and entertainment; they became friends. But these boys could not tell anyone else about what they knew of Satan. Satan had the ability to stop them from unleashing his secret. He could read and control minds. Quite often Satan would answer a question before the person thinking of it could even speak. For instance: "I was ashamed it ask it; it might be a rudeness." Theodor thought of asking Satan a question, but before he spoke Satan smiled up at him and replied. "It wouldn't be a rudene...