How to understand the stolen white elephant

"The Stolen White Elephant" is a classic short story by Mark Twain. Behind the story of the white elephant are the "hundreds of aspects" of life. Mark Twain used extremely exaggerated artistic ideas in his novels, and made bitter satire and criticism on various shortcomings and evil deeds in social life.

Mark Twain, formerly known as Samuel Langhorne Clemens, is an American writer and speaker. "Mark Twain" is his pen name, which was originally used by Mississippi River sailors. A term indicating the depth of water measured on a navigation channel.

Mark Twain is the founder of American critical realism literature. Mark Twain wrote a large number of works throughout his life, covering novels, scripts, essays, poetry and other aspects. In terms of content, his works criticize irrational phenomena or the ugliness of human nature, expressing the writer's strong sense of justice and concern for ordinary people who had been a typesetter and sailor; in terms of style, experts And general readers agree that humor and irony are the characteristics of his writing.