Authors Lives Influence Work Flashcards
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Huck Finn and Mark Twain
“Father of American Liturature”
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AKA Sam Clemons
- liked black people
- respected women (father died)
- worked on a river boat
- -pilot “best time of his life”
- brief confederate military
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Scarlet Letter by Hawthoren
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Born in Salem MA.
- -great grandfather = judge in Salem Witch Trails
- -felt guilt and shame
- raised by Mother
- worked at Salem Custom house
- -mother died
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Herman Melville Moby Dick
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- abandoned by father, worked on a ship
- school teacher
- joined whaling vessel (Acushnet)
- southern islands (canibals)
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Edger Alen Poe
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- loved ones die of tuberculoses
- -mom at age 2
- -cousin/ wife
- sad life
- -gambling debt
- -not much $
