Review: The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County

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Adam Carmel English III, Period 2 Mrs. Bardin 13 August 2015 The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain While reading the story, I felt as though I was in the simple, free, youthful, and exciting world of frontier mining towns in America where the cultural rules and obligations of the established culture and values in the Eastern United States did not apply. In the frontier, people seemed closer to their own childhood values than people in the East and in the major Western cities like San Francisco. The complexities of the Modern world seemed to fade away in the simple, youthful, freedom loving frontier. I felt like I was in this simple American Frontier town, because of the simplicity of the writing style, meant to reflect

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