American Realism

During the week I read three writings of Mark Twain. Twain has a different style of writing compared to the other American Romantics that we have read. Twain does not talk about nature at all really in the three stories that I have read. Many Romantics only write about nature and its effects on people and their daily lives. I personally like the style of Twain better because it seems like he is more down to earth and the way it really works compared to the Romantics who only focus in on nature. I feel that there is some progression from American Romanticism into American Realism because Twain write about the realism of the world and not about nature like the Romantics. I feel it would be better for people to read about the world and how it really is instead of some made up nature filled world.
I feel Twain had the tendency to write about what he thought was going on in the world around him. He does not write “by the books” so to say instead he writes about what he is feeling at the time. I get this feeling from the stories of the good little boy and the bad little boy. He repeatedly says, “in the Sunday-School books this does not happen this way,” which gives me the feeling that he writes by his own style of writing and nobody else’s. Twain probably had a different worldview at the time of his writings because his writings were a lot different then many other writers during his time of the switch from American Romanticism to American Realism.
In my opinion, I think Twain is writing to the people of his time period to try and persuade them to focus on the realism of the world that take place in his writings compared to what takes place in the writings of the romantics. Out of the three stories I read Twain writes about things that happen in the real world and does not portray the world as a world controlled by nature and its effects on people. Twain might also be writing for himself to give himself that feeling that he is telling the people of the world the truth about how the world really works.
I think through his writings Twain reveals his normality. I was much more interested in the writings of Twain then the Romantics because they appealed to me as real life situations. Not once did he bring up nature and how it helps him through the day like many Romantics write about. To me Twains writings are normal because of what he writes about. I would much rather read a writing of his then many of the writings of the American Romantics.
One of the passages that drew me to realize that Twain wrote about realism was from “The Story Of The Good Little Boy.” He says, “This was not in accordance with any of the books.” This shows me that Twain does not write by the books or live by the books. Especially in this story, what is really supposed to happen to the little boy never happens, the complete opposite occurs. Twain probably lived his life as a normal person because he did not live his life according to a book or how it is really supposed to be. Instead he lived day by day and took things how they came.