abotage of his frog until after the jumping event. When Smiley noticed that his frog could not move, "he didn't have no idea what the matter was, of course" (Twain Frog 536). Twain wanted the American people to understand their blindness towards slavery; but, he knew full well it would not strike them until after the damage had been done. He knew the only way for them to notice their sin was if something went wrong. He wanted to warn them.
             Most people in the United States knew how cruel the life of a feudal peasant was. By detailing the feudal lifestyle, Twain tried to show the South just how badly they were treating the slaves. Twain saw two sets of morals in every Anglo-Saxon household; the public, artificial morals and the private, real morals. Publicly people would continuously say, "In God we trust," but inside their hearts were saying, "When the Anglo-Saxon wants a thing he just takes it" (Geismar 4). These morals were shared by the upper class of England in the Middle Ages. He wanted this allusio
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