The first two paragraphs on the story's last page (p.277, lines 3-22) might be said to be the climax of the Reverends narrative about the decorated British hero. Are the descriptions in the paragraphs mainly about the battle or about Scoresby? What do these paragraphs express about Scoresby?
             The Story Luck by Mark Twain is about a British military hero that has won his titles and outstanding reputation purely because of Luck.
             Mark Twain has used an excellent stile, which keeps the reader interested in reading the story till the very end. We will now look closer at two paragraphs (p. 277, lines 3-22) that can be said to be the climax of the story.
             Mark Twain has build up the story by increasing the challenges that Scoresby has to face. In the beginning Scoresby is standing in front of a minor challenge when he has to sit the exams, which he somehow passes without obstacles. Then he comes to a bigger challenge when he is sent of to war. And finally we come to the climax, where Scorsby is standing in front of the biggest challenge of them all.
             The Reverend tells these two paragraphs that contain the climax. In these paragraphs the battle is described, but the battle is only a tool that Mark Twain uses to show how stupid and dead lucky Scoresby is. The First Paragraph tells us how stupid he is, "what does this immortal fool do but detach the regiment from its place and order a charge over a neighbouring hill where there wasn't a suggestion of an enemy!" And the second tells us how unbelievable lucky Scoresby is.
             And what happened? We were eaten up? That is necessarily what would have happened in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred. But no; those Russians argued that no single regiment would come browsing around there at such a time. It must be the entire English army, and the sly Russian game was detected and blocked, so they turned tail...
             The writer uses questions in the beginning to
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