"That's why they're invited here this evenin'; but we want ALL to come—everybody; for he respected everybody, he liked everybody, and so it's fitten that his funeral orgies sh'd be public."
Mark Twain writes about how the king and the duke trick the members of the Wilkes family into believing that the duke and the king are members of their family. The major event that is occurring is the funeral service of William Wilkes. In the beginning they plan for the funeral to be a private matter, but the
king and the duke persuade the family to make it public and eventually make it seem like a ceremony of not mourning, but somethign of teh complete opposite. Twain pokes fun of how people turn somethign that is spose to be sad into something of a celebration. People can see this in magazines and news articles all the time. Things such as the death of celebraties due to things such as drugs and depression have become less of a mourning to a topic of popular discussion. It has changed from sorrow to the latest thing. You can see this exploited in the magazine picture created after a celebraties death.
Mark Twain writes about how the king and the duke trick the members of the Wilkes family into believing that the duke and the king are members of their family. The major event that is occurring is the funeral service of William Wilkes. In the beginning they plan for the funeral to be a private matter, but the
king and the duke persuade the family to make it public and eventually make it seem like a ceremony of not mourning, but somethign of teh complete opposite. Twain pokes fun of how people turn somethign that is spose to be sad into something of a celebration. People can see this in magazines and news articles all the time. Things such as the death of celebraties due to things such as drugs and depression have become less of a mourning to a topic of popular discussion. It has changed from sorrow to the latest thing. You can see this exploited in the magazine picture created after a celebraties death. 
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