On the night Samuel Clemens was born | | the fictitious name "Mark Twain". |
Samuel grew up in Hannibal, | | was based on his friend Tom. |
His fictional character Huckleberry Finn | | becoming a steamboat captain. |
When he was nine years old | | at a printer's banquet. |
When he was twelve he was | | apprenticed at a newspaper. |
He gave his first after-dinner speech | | he stowed away on a steamboat. |
He finally fulfilled his childhood dream of | | Missouri beside the Mississippi River. |
He began to write for a newspaper using | | Halley's comet was just passing by. |
Twain had an opportunity to write | | a series of stories from Hawaii. |
In writing The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | | Halley's comet was visible in the sky. |
When his wife Livy became ill | | they moved to Italy to impove her health. |
When Samuel Clemens died | | he wrote about himself as the main character. |