Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne Clemens was a well-known novelist and remains so today. Samuel Clemens, otherwise known as Mark Twain, dedicated his life to creating infamous literary works that are still revered and honored today. Mark Twain's precise stories and literary works reflect his adolescence and experiences growing up along the Mississippi through his heavy use of dialect, language, settings, and characterizations. Samuel Clemens was born on November 30, 1835, the year of Halley's Comet in Florida, Missouri, on the banks of the Mississippi River “Mark Twain was the son of John Marshall Clemens and Jane Lampton Clemens, he was also the sixth child of seven children”( Twain 3). His family immigrated to Hannibal, a port city on the Mississippi River, which became the motivation for most of his work, but his most distinguished work that reflects this is The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain attended the school from 1840 to 1849. Around 1847 the two established jobs at newspapers, which eventually led him to leave school and take full-time positions as a novelist. Twain also became a riverboat pilot until the outbreak of the Civil War caused him to lose his job. “During the war and post-war years he remained with newspapers and gazettes, working on his writing course for which he is known today. ”. (Bloom 11). Samuel Clemens eventually obtained a full-time position as an interviewer at Virginia City Territorial Enterprises. “There he trained under his pseudonym “Mark Twain” in 1863, learning to be a pilot on a riverboat” (Twain 8). Twain then moved to San Francisco and got another full-time job at the Saturday Press. There... in the center of the paper... was the character of his story. Mark Twain happily uses the literary language that introduces Wheeler's style. He also suspects that Wheeler was deceived when telling the story. The story was told by two narrators, Mark Twain who introduces his story with energy, and Simon Wheeler who sets his story for Twain's auditory perceivers. The language used by the narrators is a certain dialect that Twain uses from the South to describe his background. This reflects his life growing up on a slave plantation and where he comes from (Cox 17-18). Mark Twain's work reflects his childhood and experiences growing up along the Mississippi River through his vigorous use of dialect. Twain amazed people by using such vigorous dialect and language, because it was unheard of then. Twain was a highly revered author and editor then, and still is today.