When writing a literary analysis, you must first decide on your claim, or your central idea, about the literary elements or techniques you are writing about. Which of these statements best summarizes the writer's claim in "Young Sam Clemens on the Mississippi"? A In Life on the Mississippi, Samuel Clemens used a variety of nonfiction techniques to report his experiences as a young pilot. B Before Samuel Clemens wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, he worked as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River. C Samuel Clemens was such a good author that he could write an interesting story about his life as a young steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River. D In Life on the Mississippi, Samuel Clemens made his experiences as a steamboat pilot dramatic with fiction techniques such as dialogue and humor.