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The Prince and the Poor Child is a novel written by American writer Mark Twain. In the form of fairy tales, clever irony and humorous language, the novel tells the story of two protagonists born on the same day-Prince Edward Jr. and Tom Jr., a poor child. When the prince was born, the whole country celebrated. He lived a luxurious life since childhood. The birth of poor children only added trouble to their families. They lived by begging since childhood and lived a life of eating every meal. There is a sharp contrast between the two men.

By chance, they exchanged identities, and in the process of exchanging identities, they realized a different life-little Tom lived his dream "prince life", but little Prince Edward was mistaken for a little beggar. Fortunately, Edward understood the social reality in Britain. Although the exchange of identity made him suffer a lot, it made him grow into a king who loves his lover and things.

The ending of the story is happy. After the collision of poor Tom's own mind, his kindness and honesty overcame evil, and he helped Edward return to the palace. After dislocation, Edward returned to the palace and became a kind king, doing many good things for the people. He became the ideal king in Mark Twain's mind, and also expressed his beautiful yearning for the bourgeois democratic society at that time.

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19 In the late 1970s, the United States began to make a transition to imperialism. At this time, politically, the differences between the two parties in the United States are getting smaller and smaller. The presidential election is characterized by extremely bad political speculation. As a result of the election, the positions of president and vice president are puppets of the capital consortium.

Economically, the United States has become one of the countries with the biggest gap between the rich and the poor. In rural areas, a special system of sharing tenancy relationship has emerged in the southern United States. Three-quarters of farmers in the west mortgaged their farms to banks or joint-stock companies. Bankrupt farmers have joined the ranks of the unemployed, the urban poor and social vagrants.

In cities, capitalist "civilization" such as overwork, malnutrition, poverty, hunger and inhuman living conditions weigh heavily on workers. The economic crisis from 1873 to 1878 caused three million unemployed workers and their families, accounting for almost a quarter of the total population at that time, which became a national disaster at that time.

During the Great Depression, American workers started a series of strikes. Thus, for the first time in American history, the bourgeoisie used federal troops to suppress strikes in peacetime. In this case, Mark Twain gave up his life on the Mississippi River in the summer of 1877 and decided to write The Prince and the Poor Child to respond to this bloody era.

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