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Mark Twain’s essay Corn-Pone Opinions was basically about how people follow trends whether or not they like them. The first few paragraphs are about a fifteen year old boy who admired listening to his friend preach sermons. The young black man was a delightful man who liked to find the humor in everything. He was a slave so in the middle of his sermons, he had to stop and pretend he was working so his master did not catch him. The boys mother refused to let him listen to the slave preach. The rest of the essay is basically about how people adopt fashions/trends. Twain’s essay is also saying how we will eventually adopt a new fashion and follow it for awhile while everyone else does. Then it slowly dies out by one person stop wearing it then another and another… If you are still trying to wear the old fashion once it dies, you will get laughed at because that was “so last season”. You don’t really have a logical explanation on why you wear it most of the time, you just do it because everyone