The life a Samuel Clemens is not well known by the general public. This is unfortunate because this man had a great impact on American literature. This is because Samuel Clemens and the great 19th century writer and humorist Mark Twain are one and the same. Mark Twain is the pseudonym of Samuel Clemens, a man born in Missouri who through, his jobs and life experiences became the great Mark Twain. The life of Samuel Clemens directly influenced the writing style of Mark Twain; affecting the complexity, word choices, structural patterns, and plot development in his writings, particularly in his novel The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn.

Mark Twain traveled around the country often, gaining insight and learning how to be a more effective writer. "A more distant but no less direct result was the development of the structural patterns not only of his greatest travel narratives but also...