Did you expect anything else....

The War Prayer by Mark Twain

As I stated in my fact sheet. Mark Twain knew people. With each of his works Twain had a way of getting inside an individual's head and making them understand the message he was trying to portray. With the piece we were given to read in class, what was obvious for us to understand is the clash between Easterners and Westerners.
He also had a way of displaying humanities guilty pleasures without making people actually feel guilty about them. The piece I have linked is one of my favorite short works. If you skip to the very end, the last larger paragraph you will see the actual "prayer." In which Twain shows the reality of war. The way in which he does this we can't help but laugh/smile at it. But what he is saying is so painstakingly real it's astonishing. Twain knew how to make it real to his readers, he know how to make them understand the reality of war. People knew it was tragic when they lost a husband or a son. People tried to ignore the brutality of war. Twain writes it, Twain forces it into peoples faces without ever making them feel awkward or uncomfortable about it.

This is why he is my favorite. Twain had a way of making things real, making the things he wrote about, fictional or otherwise, real to his readers.