Many of our modern day writers as well as our classic writers like to use their
imaginations to dream up stories, and different settings that are much different from their daily
lives. Authors such as Stephen King and Michael Crichton are those types of authors who like to
write novels about different worlds and things that quite possibly never might happen. Other
authors like to take a different approach, and they write stories that take place around where they
live or have lived, or they incorporate experiences that have happened to them into their works of
literature. Mark Twain is an author like this. He likes to write stories that are set in places that
he has lived. He likes to have the characters experience certain things that he has experienced.
Quite possibly his most famous work of this type is Huckleberry Finn. In Mark Twain's novel
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain weaves many life experiences into his work through
Huck Finn, such as growing up along the Mississippi River, and especially his feelings and
interactions with slaves; thus, a very controversial novel is created.
Mark Twain was born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri. He was born to Jane
Lampton and John Marshall Clemens. In 1939 Twain and his family moved to Hannibal, located
on the banks of the Mississippi River. They moved there because his father thought that there
would be many more opportunities there. In 1947 Twain's father died leaving him
Twain was getting a public education until he dropped out at the age of twelve to pursue
becoming a printer. Shortly after his father's death Twain was apprenticed to a local printer,
where his news paper career was launched. In 1850 Twain went to work for his older brother on
the Hannibal Western Union , and until 1857 he worked and wrote stories for a number of
different papers. During this time he drew sketches and wrote his fir...