Samuel langhorn clemens, mark twain, was born in florida, missouri on november 30,1835. the experience of his life prepared him as a writer, an american writer. he worked as a printer, then apprenticed himself as a river pilot on the mississippi, and eventually became one of the best. he worked at mining activities in nevada. in 1862, he took a position on the virginia city enterprise where he first used the name mark twain, which was a riverboat pilot expression. he went to the west coast and worked for a while on the san francisco newspaper, morning call. after leaving there, he went to calaveras county to try his hand at mining. in 1865, he was asked by artemus ward to write a humorous sketch. he signed it "mark twain," and his reputation began on the eastern seaboard. in 1866, he was sent by the sacramento union to hawaii. unexpectedly, in 1867, he sailed abroad and wrote letters that were to become the book, the innocents abroad. with that book he became the most famous humorist of his time. in july, 1869, the innocents abroad was published. on february 2,1870, he married olivia langdon. what is the tone of the excerpt? factual humorous kindly tiresome

factual.

Explanation:

The passage mentioned in the question provides the details of Mark Twain, a famous writer, novelist and publisher etc. among others. Even though his real name was Samuel Langhorn Clemens, he is more popularly known by his pen-name Mark Twain. The above passage does not have or give an indications of anything that is humorous or kindly or even tiresome. It is just the simple facts of Mark Twain and his life, more like an introduction of him. In short, it presents all the factual details.

in a place once known as north america, now known as panem, is a very rich city surrounded by twelve districts. every year because this very rich city, known as the capitol, is so rich and likes to think they control all the districts - which they do - there is something known as the hunger games! this is where two children, one boy and one girl from each district from the ages of twelve to eighteen, have to leave their families and compete in the hunger games, a live event that is aired on tv's all over panem. when katniss everdeen, aged sixteen from district 12, has to volunteer to take the place of her twelve-year-old sister prim after prim's name is called forth to become the 23rd member to compete in the 74th hunger games, she promises to prim that she will win! katniss doesn't believe she's coming out alive - but she's not going down without a fight.

because district 12 is so poor, katniss has been close to death many times from starvation but she's made it through it. but this is a different kind of close to death; this katniss doesn't know if she can survive.

she doesn't want to hurt, or kill anyone but when it comes down to it katniss' instinct is to survive. but when she starts to have confusing feelings about the boy from her district who is also her fellow contender, things get worse, and then she teams up with the girl from district 11 and only one person can survive. but who will it be? will her feelings get the better of her? will she let someone else win so they don't have to die? if katniss is going to win she's going to have to be brutal. she's going to have to kill!