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Questions
1. Who is Twain's audience?
2. What seems to be Twain's attitude toward parents in Paragraph?
2 Does he see obeying your parents as a question of right and wrong?
3. In satire, a reversal can happen when the opposite of a normal attitude in society is presented as typical. What shows this type of reversal in Paragraph 3?
4. Paragraph 4 alludes to Benjamin Franklin's famous advice:Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. In Twain's belief, why do people care about getting up early? What seems to be his real opinion on when you should wake up?
5. What is one example of hyperbole (exaggeration) in Paragraph 5?
6. What is ironic about the advice given in Paragraph 6?
7. According to the final paragraph, what will you become if you follow his advice? What can you infer seems to be Twain's opinion of human nature in general?
8. What would you say is the overall main idea of this satirical essay?