The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County | Ideas for Reports and Papers
1. Twain's story was first written as a letter, a style referred to as epistolary. Other examples of epistolary works are Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) and Alice Walker's The Color Purple (1982). Discuss the impact of the epistolary form on the narrative and the reader's interest in a work.
2. Research what life—particularly life in a mining camp—was like in California at the time Twain wrote this tale. Discuss what you learn about camp life in relation to Twain's depiction of it in "Jumping Frog" and in stories such as Bret Harte's "The Luck of Roaring Camp"...
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