Corn Pone Opinions

1. Twain’s purpose is to analyze the reason why people do things.

2. He starts with a personal experience and broadens it out to apply to everyone. When he broadens it he changes his personal pronoun to we to involve the audience in his analysis.

3. The anecdote serves to introduce and explain the uncommon idea that he is going to talk about.

4. Twain expands Jerry’s definition by examining what self-approval is and how these opinions get started. When he numbers them he gives his reader background on what he is going to write about because it can be a confusing subject.

5. I believe that at the time Twain’s examples such as the hoopskirts, wineglasses, and bloomers, were more effective but as a more disconnected era now it is not as effective but still fairly effective.

6. I think the irony is in that he is talking about conformity pertaining to a black man who is a slave. This man is following his party yet understands why.

7. I believe that paragraph 13 is so long because it is one idea and thought process. I think he could have broken it up at the part where he talks about conformity but it serves well to leave it long.

8. The two sentences provide the parallelism that defines who the men she is talking about are and why they do what they do.

9. By capitalizing them it draws attention to them and adds to the sentence.

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