"Life on the Mississippi" is an autobiographical journey, Mark Twain recalls his work as seaman on the Mississippi River, the author has great interest in the Mississippi River, under his pen, the river with a rich vitality, be the most changeful, elusive capricious image appears in front of people it is destructive, great great harm, and raising the land and the people on the river basin. The little school education Mark Twain, Mississippi is a university, which he met many natural phenomena and subtle and complicated social phenomenon. The fluctuation of the river on the Mississippi River will directly affect the prosperity and destruction of the farm, the prosperity and decline of the city. One of the strangest features of the Mississippi River is the shortening of the river. Some bad guy because of his plantation in a little far away from the river in the country, the land price is low, when the river soar, as long as he was waiting for the opportunity to take advantage of the night to dig a trench that a narrow isthmus, the river water is diverted into it, so in a short time the unexpected, there will be a miracle: that is, the entire Mississippi River occupies the gully, the remote places of the plantation moved to its shore (to make his land prices four times), while the other person is worth the plantation was isolated to the way, become a big island."
After the end of the civil war, the United States began to enter the rapid development of the gilded age". The railway quickly spread throughout the country in the United States, a series of social contradictions appeared, such as slavery, population expansion, city migration, religious revival, racism, and legislative reform upsurge. In pursuit of material interests, people increasingly neglect spiritual things, and lack of inner emptiness. The relationship between man and nature in the coexistence and integration to the opposition and the deterioration of the process, human nature has gradually deviated from the essence of nature, alienation, materialization, eventually led to the deterioration of the environment of globalization and ecological crisis. While civilization brings great material wealth to people, it also tarnished the original purity of human mind, and suppressed the natural and healthy nature."
The author pointed out sharply, for thousands of years is the emperor and a few people have the right to control everything, but this kind of power "from today, in this country, is always reduced to ashes, because in this country rises a imperial power than any more power, and this power" it will be on the throne, wielding a mace, so the hungry can eat cold, people can have clothes, those false princes will destroy, and the true master will come to power". The real owner he refers to is the organized working class. He said: "when all the masons, all mechanical workers, all the miners, all the iron industry, printing workers, dock workers, painters, railway driver, saleswoman all the seamstress all, all of the operator, in a word, all hidden the things you call the power of the entity, and not without the power of the toiling masses when these people together, with your love for what a name for this great situation, the fact is that a country will end up." Finally, he said with confidence that this will be the beginning of the world's great age, he is facing the human right cause and will succeed.