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The Wrath of Twain  11/8/06 “The average man’s a coward.”(141) Indeed, Sherburn, a.k.a. Mark Twain, the author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, thought average man to be filled with cowardice and greed. He saw him as a cowering fool who hid behind a (white) mask (in the dark). Twain was bitter, but knew what he was saying. He scorned the southern man for living his life in an ignorant fashion. Then scorned the ones with shoulders carrying heavy prejudices. At the end of Twain’s misunderstood life, he wrote a big “F-U” to everybody who was anybody, and this speech by Sherburn, was just a taste of it. One