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Honest, non-rhetorical question: is there an example where Mark Twain told a story that his audience presumed to be true and was invented to garner sympathy?
by mysecretaccount 3y ago
Honest, non-rhetorical question: is there an example where Mark Twain told a story that his audience presumed to be true and was invented to garner sympathy?
- labrador 3y agoIn Roughing It he writes about some sad Native-Americans that felt invented to me. It felt invented because he describes them as helpless and incapable. I doubt that was the general case, but he was making a point. GPT-4 Can you tell what chapter Mark Twains "Roughing It" where he describes some sad Native-Americans? The chapter you're referring to is Chapter 26. In this chapter, Twain describes an encounter with a group of Native Americans near the Humboldt River. He paints a rather bleak picture of their condition, noting their ragged appearance, their desolate surroundings, and the overall sense of hopelessness. Twain's description is both sympathetic and critical, as he comments on the impact of Western expansion on Native American communities.
- mysecretaccount 3y agoThis does not seem to be all that similar to the point you are trying to make regarding the OP.
- labrador 3y ago> is there an example where Mark Twain told a story that his audience presumed to be true and was invented to garner sympathy? It's an answer to this question
- nyokodo 3y ago> invented to garner sympathy Or, worse, invented to garner sympathy by piling on demonization onto another group. These are not victimless crimes.