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Mark Twain’s lampoon of author Horatio Alger (http://openstaxcollege.org/l/ twain1) demonstrates Twain’s commitment to realism by mocking the myth set out by Alger, whose stories followed a common theme in which a poor but honest boy goes from rags to riches through a combination of “luck and pluck.” See how Twain twists Alger’s hugely popular storyline in this piece of satire.
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