"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 4" by Mark Twain is a witty story from the late 1800s about a man named Hank Morgan, who finds himself in King Arthur’s time. He uses his modern smarts to shake up the old-fashioned ways of the medieval world, mixing humor with tough questions about progress, and making fun of the snobby rich people. In this section, Hank attends a fancy royal dinner where he sees the nobles acting wild and cruel, but also very religious. Things get crazy when an old woman insults the queen, and Hank jumps in to save her from being killed. He then ends up in a dark dungeon, where he sees the awful truth of the unfair laws and how prisoners are treated badly. This part shows how silly the royal court is, along with the harsh lives people lived back then, pushing Hank to try and make things better for those who are suffering.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 4.
By Mark Twain
A time-traveling American finds himself in the middle ages navigating drunken feasts, saving people from royal wrath, and staring down the horrors of a medieval dungeon.
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About the AuthorSamuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel." He also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) and cowrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel." He also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) and cowrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.
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