Puddn'head Wilson by Mark Twain

        In 1894, Mark Twain had a story published, called Pudd'nhead Wilson. It's a story about a small, Mississippi town, where a slave named Roxy switches her baby with her master's baby. Pudd'nhead is actually very intelligent, but people are so judgmental, when he makes a comment about something that no one else understands, they automatically assume he is dumb. One of Pudd'nhead's hobbies is collecting fingerprints, and he has managed to collect the prints of the …

…writer by showing some of the characteristics of realism in his works such as, humans begin as a blank slate whose reality is shaped by experience, and he, like other realistic writers, concentrate on specific regions of the county and their custom, social status, dialect, and types of humor. Twain reflects the history of his time by setting the story in a small Mississippi valley, and showing the different social status's included in the town.