Corn-Pone Opinions
Mark
Twain, a complex and poetic writer, describes the hardships and strict opinions
he had during his youth. He begins his essay speaking of the young black
fifteen-year-old boy who enjoyed listening to his friend preach sermon. The
young boy would stow away his true passions from his master. During the day he
would be listening to other children around his age speak and act like he was
working. The essay would later fuse into how people like the young boy would
adopt culture trends following a pattern. He explains that we adopt these
trends because of others in the world enforce the idea that the popular kid is
always the one that everyone has to follow. The process involving the rise of
the clothing; where the most popular kid wears the clothing for a couple days,
which spurs on into the entire society is following the pattern just because
one person decided to wear it. He created an argument of why we follow such
absurd patterns. The rhetorical device used was didactic because he used his
essay to teach social behaviors and the importance of not conforming to
“popular” trends. Mark Twain established the idea that we simply wear popular
clothing because everyone else is doing it. He exclaimed that there is no
logical reasoning behind why we wear clothes just because everyone else is it
is just an instinct.
This essay was a
way for Mark Twain to publicize his disappointment with how the world has been
running. From some of the other novels he has written, Huckleberry Fin, The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and many more resemble the idea to express opinion
like he has done in all of his. He, in all of his novels, had the attitude of a
free-willed lifestyle with equality for all. Where as in this essay he
describes the changes in society that go against his morals and ideas. Throughout
his life Mark was always committed to writing, rather being a journalist, an
apprentice for a printer company. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) is a
credible source because of the hard work and the impact he has done to the
world of literature.
Fashion at its finest
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