Part one of term paper
In 1835, Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born to John Marshall Clemens and Jane Lampton in the small town of Florida, Missouri. The Clemens¹ family wasn¹t at all rich, but four years after Samuel was born, they moved to the even smaller Missouri town of Hannibal, population 500, (Hoffman 2). It would be Hannibal that would inspire some of C ...

Part two of term paper
... in many of Clemens's books, (Wister xxv). Clemens grew up in a strong lower class family. His father was a good, but unsuccessful lawyer. His mother was a proper church-going southern woman, who was kind and compassionate to others, (Anderson 5). Both of his parents would inspire Clemens¹s writings. Significantly so when his father died, around when he was 12. It was then that Clemens decided to leave his small river town and his ailing scholastic career, and head of by himself. Cle ...