The Mark Twain Thesis

Mark Twain To look at that person on the honor role, who’s the best athlete, has the newest car, and gets all the ladies. Or the person in art class who continually produces the best art work and ruins the grade curve for the rest of us. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. Throughout his life Mark Twain continued to produce masterpiece writing leaving no …

…and any form of a good example. As society works human error is accepted as everyday life. The few perfection’s in life are first looked at carefully to the point of admiration, then frowned upon, then again carefully scrutinized. To glorify anything to the point of a good example is intolerable. And the characterization of a person whom is without flaw can be found many places, but never in one of Twain’s writings.