A Response To Twain

   Similar to William Faulkner or Margaret Mitchell, Mark Twain has played with language and regional and racial as a tool within his short story A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I heard it. Two distinct voices are created. The first voice is that of a benevolent southern landed gentry, "Misto C". This persona becomes the frame from which adds a kind of psychological and social balance to the primary voice of "Aunt Rachel". The juxtaposition of the educated voice verses the uneducated voice is clear. Twain turns all assumptions on its head when the voice of the lowly slave is filled with more experience, morality, and intellect than her servant master.