It was vividly amazing ! !
Though Mark Twain's work comprises such unique piece of writing.
I'm astonished with this short story too.
To read this story, reader should need to have pair of shoes of either the child or his teacher.
It would change your perception while reading it throughout the story.
It's a story of a child who was dull initially but gradually he had learnt unexpectedly. It's unnatural for the child to came out in such profound way towards academics which led him while Crimson War broke out. It was the luck of the child leading him, though we have seen vice-versa of such story which is very normal.
Few points-
And now of course, the thing that would expose him, and kill him at last, was mathematics."
"The Crimean War had just broken out. 'Of course. There had to be a war,' I said to myself. 'We couldn't have peace and give this donkey a chance to die before he's found out.' "
"The very best thing in all this world that can befall a man is to be born lucky."