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Mark Twain's Stories During The 1860s-1900s

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Judging by what was in these stories clearly living during the 1860s-1900s must have been an intense time. I think the reason why the stories in this unit relate to the 1860s-1900s is because the details of these stories are relevant to what was currently going on in that time period. For example, Mark Twain wrote about racism, slavery, and injustice. Which was relating to what was going on in the country at the time. Although Mark Twain 's stories often reflected on realism. I believe Regionalism in a way also played a part in his story. Since he had the privilege to write these stories I think he used that advantage to showcase stories relating to people who didn 't have the same privileges as him. He chose to write stories about the

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