Question

Based on the information in the articles you just read, how does Mark Twain’s work embody the writing of the Civil War and postwar eras? Check the two boxes that apply. It concentrates on romantic notions of life. It relates the daily struggles of average American people with honesty. It presents, in an enduring fashion, a realism and regionalism new to literature. It presents, in a transitory way, a time period in this country that had little effect on future events.

Answer 1

The correct answer is B) It relates the daily struggles of average American people with honesty, and C) It presents, in an enduring fashion, a realism and regionalism new to literature.

Mark Twain’s work embodies the writing of the Civil War and postwar eras in that It relates the daily struggles of average American people with honesty, and it presents, in an enduring fashion, a realism and regionalism new to literature.

American writer Mark Twain lived directly the horrors of war because he served for a short time as a soldier of the Confederate Army in the Civil War. Twain joined the Marion Rangers but he quit after a couple of weeks. He wrote about this situation in "The Private History of a Campaign that Failed." Years later, Twain said about the war that "it was a blot on our history, but not as great a blot as the buying and selling of black people."

Answer 2

It relates the daily struggles of average American people with honesty.

It presents, in an enduring fashion, a realism and regionalism new to literature.

B AND C