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Consider pairing “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” with other works by Mark Twain, like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
Consider reading other works by famous authors of the U.S. South, like William Faulkner and Kate Chopin.
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The Question and Answer section for The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
The narrator uses an educated man’s vocabulary and is excessively polite, with a wry, formal, somewhat condescending tone.
1) "..... he would go to work and bore me nearly to death with some infernal reminiscence of him as long and tedious as it should be useless to me. If that was the design, it certainly succeeded."
2) "If he even seen a straddle-bug start to go...
D- A miner's camp in the West
