Mark Twain Rhetorical Analysis

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The Mark Twain essay deliberately uses false logic for comic effect. Obviously, the idea that one person is a set of twins is not possible. The fallacious logic comes from believing both signs are real when clearly a person can only be born in one place. The writer first declares that Benjamin Franklin "was twins, simultaneously born in two separate houses in the city of Boston." Mark Twain then explains that two homes have a sign stating that Benjamin Franklin was born there. Twain then implies that Franklin did some things on purpose that he had no control over. For instance, he writes that "it was in this spirit that he became the son of a soap-boiler, and for no other reason than that the efforts of all future children ... might be looked
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