Mark Twain uses a lot of technical language that applies to steamboats. What purpose does this technical language serve in the narrative in life on the Mississippi

What is the narrators main conflict in this passage

His is a verbal or oral response to an argument presenting an opposite viewpoint. slanted wordstabloid thinkingappeal to authoritybandwagoncard stacking generalityintertextual referencesname callingplain folks tactics

Lens quotation: "character is what you are in the dark." -dwight lyman moody