The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County :: Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

The Celebrated startle Frog of Calaveras County     The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is a delightfully entertaining piece of work. The char toyers are actual beautifully through fantastic descriptions, amusing actions, and close toly through smooth, flowing, and wonderful dialogue. The dialogue is, indeed, the main attraction of this event. Simon wheelers speech is optimistic, and above all, very friendly. cyclist tells of Smileys antics as any great story teller would. Wheeler offers his avow observations generously. They are casual and hospitable. Wheeler, speaking of Smileys take careting habit, interjects that, Why, it never made no difference to him- hed bet on anything- the dangdest feller (113). This observation is helpful and funny. Wheeler also offers a fabulous story to illustrate his point. He tells of Smiley devising a bet that a mans wife will non ameliorate in health contradictory to what the doctors say. The absurdity of such a be t leaves the reader laughing out loud, in spite of such a morbid joke. Even the frog is personified and m middle-ageded carefully into the most single and unique frog ever to hop along. The frog is described by Wheeler as modest, straightforward, and gifted. Danl Webster was the name of the frog... (114). Daniels aptitude for intelligent thought is demonstrate by his ability to catch flies on command. Again, a most absurd assertion but, n geniustheless, very deductdic. Oddly, Daniel is compared to a cat. Wheeler observes that, Hed Smiley give him a little pinch behind, and the next minute youd see that frog twirl in the air like a doughnut- see him turn one summerset, or maybe a couple, if he got a good start, and come down flat- footed and all right, like a cat (114). one(a) could argue that Daniel is the main character of the story. The actual narrator of the story is an old friend of Smiley. The friends brief relationship with Wheeler is also rather interesting. pas de deux does not say directly that the man is not particularly quick of Wheeler, but alludes to that through the narrators dialogue. Smileys old friend sits down with Wheeler and describes the act as such Simon Wheeler backed me into a corner and embarrass me there with his chair, and then sat down and reeled off the monotonous communicatory which follows this paragraph (113). Through the mans choice of words the reader quickly realizes that this is not a pleasurable experience to him.