Literary Analysis

1. The extract under analysis comes from a short story  written by Mark Twain. The author is a well- known American writer, journalist and publicis, but his real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. His works are of different genres - humour, satire, science fiction, journalism and many others, but in all these genres he takes a position of humanist and democrat.  He wrote a lot of stories, among them are "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"(1876), its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), which is often called "the Great American Novel", «The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories» (1906),and «Life on the Mississippi»(1883). He was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age," and William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature."
2. The extract concerns relations between the first man and woman on Earth - Adam and Eve. It also describes Eve's feellings, emotions about her first days on the Earth, about her investigation the world. 
3. The basic theme of the story is attitude between first woman and man, the battle of sexes.
4. The events in the analysed extract happen in Eden many millions years ago. It was the beginning of the world The setting of the events in the given extract is mixed, because it has some realistic, historical and exotic elements. It is presented in a general specific way, in the form of a diary. It provides a background for action and  reflects the characters' emotions and feelings.
5. From the point of view of presentation the text is the 1st person narrative. But also we can find a small dialogue between main heroes of the text.
6. The characters we meet in the extract under analysis are Eve - she is the protagonist. And Adam, he is kind of secondary hero in the text. The writer reveals Eve by means of narrative description with implied judgment. From both fact and judgment we derive the impression of the main character as a strong, responsible, caring, self educated and curious woman who lived alone in the Garden of Eden, who was, always, ready to investigate something new, to give names everything that she could see for the first time. When the narrator informs us that she was trying to get used with the Adam we come to share her fellings (love), emotions, behaviour. The following comment of the narrator clearly indicates that Eve was surprised and quite scared, whe she saw Adam for the first time: "  I think it is a man. I had never seen a man, but it looked like one, and I feel sure that that is what it is. I realize that I feel more curiosity about it than about any of the other reptiles. If it is a reptile, and I suppose it is; for it has frowzy hair and blue eyes, and looks like a reptile. It has no hips; it tapers like a carrot; when it stands, it spreads itself apart like a derrick; so I think it is a reptile, though it may be architecture.
   I was afraid of it at first, and started to run every time it turned around " She was full of interest, wanted to know more and more about the man, Eve was ready even  follow him, in order to know him better : " All the week I tagged around after him and tried to get acquainted. I had to do the talking, because he was shy, but I didn't mind it. He seemed pleased to have me around, and I used the sociable "we" a good deal, because it seemed to flatter him to be included."  Eve was also  glad to be of use:" When the dodo came along he thought it was a wildcat--I saw it in his eye. But I saved him. And I was careful not to do it in a way that could hurt his pride. I just spoke up in a quite natural way of pleasing surprise, and not as if I was dreaming of conveying information, and said, "Well, I do declare, if there isn't the dodo!" I explained--without seeming to be explaining --how I know it for a dodo, and although I thought maybe he was a little piqued that I knew the creature when he didn't, it was quite evident that he admired me".
7. The plot of this novel runs as follows: in the form of a diary. It is the first-person account of Eve from her birth up to her burial by her mate Adam, including meeting and getting to know Adam, and investigating  the world around her in the Eden. The story then jumps 40 years into the future after the Fall and expulsion from the Eden.
8. The types of speech employed by the author of the analyzed extract are narration, description, and monologue. The given passage is rather a description than a narration.