The Life of Mark Twain
Casey Reeves and Haley Bresnahan
Early Life
What shaped Twains view on slavery
Twains Jobs
Most famous work
The adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Prince and the Pauper
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
View on religion and politics
Mark Twain grew up going to church with his family, but when he grew up he stopped going to church. He was not an atheist, but he was a deist. A deist believes that a God who created the world but has since remained indifferent to it.
Mark twain had liberal political views.
Fun facts
1. Twain was married and had 3 kids
2. Before 13, he nearly drowned 9 times.
3. Mark Twain was a 'pen' name while he was writing for the Virginia city newspaper.
4. He loved baseball
5. Halley’s Comet transverses the Earth’s skies every 75 years. Mark Twain just so happened to be born following Halley’s comet, and in 1909 he predicted that he would go with Halley’s comet the next year. Just as Mark Twain predicted, he passed the night after the comet lit up the sky at the age of 75. It was the second death he predicted, the first being his brother’s.