WK 7 Mark Twain & Stephan Crane

Mark Twain is very widely known for his clever novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Fin. In Twain creates characters that others can relate to in his area and then uses humor to build up these characters. One of his great talents is his use of dialects in his writing, especially that of southern Mississippi (which is where he grew up). Mark Twain also uses young a naive characters to explore the world and to point out hypocrisies of the way that people do things. Stephan Crane, however, is more obsessed with war and physical/psychic violence. Stephan Crane's writing is much more modern than others of his time; he did this because he wanted to distinguish his own identity. Crane, as does Twain, like to write about the man vs. nature. In contrast to Twain, Crane write more about how people realistically react under extreme pressure. Despite their differences, Mark Twain and Stephan Crane were both very distinguished authors of their time and still are today.