Literary Qualities
Breathing Lessons utilizes a third-person omniscient narrative. The book is divided into three parts: the first and third sections reflect Maggie’s interpretation of events, while […]
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Social Sensitivity
In general, the subject of Tyler’s novel is family and marital relationships. Very little social and political background is provided in the story, although it […]
Ideas and Topics for Papers
TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION What is the role of game playing in the novel? How do games demonstrate the motif of breathing lessons or support Tyler’s […]
Related Titles and Adaptations
Tyler continues to explore American lives and Characters in her 1998 novel, A Patchwork Planet. In this work, Tyler relates the story of Barnaby Gaitlan, […]
About the Author
Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835 in Florida, Missouri. He spent much of his childhood in Hannibal, Missouri, a town located on […]
Setting
“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” takes place in the mid- to late 19th century, shortly after the California Gold Rush of 1849. Mark […]
Themes and Characters
A cultured easterner relates his recent visit to a talkative old man at a western mining camp. Rather than providing the information that the easterner […]
Literary Qualities
The frame tale structure of “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” is one of its most important literary devices. In a frame tale, one […]
Social Sensitivity
“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” was first published in 1865, when Mark Twain was living in the American Southwest, which was still being […]