For as many years as I can remember there has been a set of rules and regulations regarding a young person’s behavior. In this essay I will explain how Mark Twain’s method of teaching is very useful and intelligent given that he is talking to young students.
The entire speech, which was made by Mark Twain, was split up into several different areas concerning one’s behavior, but in totality they all support the same theme. This theme has to do with how youth is perceived. Normally every parent teaches their children how they should act with the people in their surrounding and usually these sets of rules are told to them in a warning tone to impede them from braking these rules. As a child ages these rules which have been repeated to them by many different people which sometimes can be more destructive than productive. This is why Mark Twain’s speech adds a spin on the rules in a way that the students find what he is saying comical and at the same time they can grasp what he is saying without having a state of warning imposed on them. By saying the opposite of what he and everyone really mean it has opened up a sense of friendship between the speaker and his audience, therefore making it easier for them to communicate with one another. This is a far better method than that of a stuck up scholar lecturing on what is defined as proper.
Another point of discussion is that on the topic of adults. In certain areas of his speech Mark Twain made comments on adults which show that every adult brakes his/her “law” of rule which he/she set for the child .For example, speaking about the topic of lying Mark Twain points out that as one gets older their lying ability seems to increase with practice. He comically invites the young students to start lying at a young age to benefit from experience. This is ironic because adults are no better than children in certain situations where the same rules, which are stressed on their children, are not followed by the parents.
The Essay on Mark Twains The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg
Mark Twain's The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg This essay will discuss one of the Mark Twains short stories The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg. In the first part I will pay attention to the summary of the story and then discuss the idea of the tale. Hadleyburg is a little town which prides itself on its truthfulness. The municipality motto is "Lead Us Not Into Temptation." The people of the town are ...
In conclusion, I believe that Mark Twain’s speech tells us a lot about how certain issues can be discussed because the best way of doing something is not always the old-fashion way. (I understand that Mark Twain’s essay was dated back to 1894, but I didn’t mean it in that way.)
