Jumping Frog Essay

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1. The tone or attitude the speaker takes in this paragraph is calm, very light and somewhat funny and skeptical, because he writes “I have a lurking suspicion that Leo W. Smiley is a myth” and also says “He would go to work and bore me to death”. 2. Simon Wheeler appears to be a fat and bald-headed guy with a very calm personality, very friendly, he never smiled or frowned, and this man was a very serious guy and never changed his voice which I believe he had a monotone voice. 3. Wheelers action suggests about him that he is a very friendly individual because like in this quote “He roused up and gave me a good day”. 4. The narrator thinks opposite because in the short story he says “Which showed me that far from his imagination there was anything ridiculous or funny about his story”. 5. Jim Smiley is addicted to gambling, two examples of his addiction are “and Smiley before he thinks, says, Well, I’ll risk two and a half she don’t anyway” in reference to Parson’s wife that is sick and may not survive, another example is “He would follow that straddle bug to Mexico” that was in reference if you would take Jim Smiley’s bet on a straddle bug. 6. The irony of his bet on Parson’s wife is funny because his wife is laid sick and one morning Smiley comes in and asks how she is doing, and Parson says much better, and Smiley without thinking says he will bet on her. 7. An exaggeration in paragraph 5 is that the boys called her the fifteen-minute nag, but of course she was faster than that. In paragraph 6 when he says “his under jaw would begin to stick out like the fo-castle of a steamboat”. 8. The irony of teaching a frog how to jump and catch flies. Well you can’t educate a frog first of all, and you can’t teach a frog to jump and catch flies, I believe frogs are naturally born in a way that they can catch flies. 9. Well the stranger after he wins the bet says again, “I
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