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Summary: The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County

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The folktale The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County written by the astounding Mark Twain brought him world wide attention because of his significant use of humor. The folktale contains wisdom and deep as the tone of the story. In the frame story Jim Smiley gambles and finally loses the bet to a “feller” who kills Smiley’s frog.Simon narrates “So he sat there a good while thinkin and thinkin to hisself, and then he got the frog out and prized his mouth open and look a teaspoon and filled him full of quail pretty near up to his chin” this exposes the unnamed man who cheats to win against smiley who is usually lucky. Smiley who has finally lost, is astonished by this before the frame story is disrupted. Jim Smiley isn’t well educated

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