马克吐温写作风格鉴赏(An_Analysis_of_the_Writing_Styles_of_Mark_Twain)英文版全文马克吐温写作风格鉴赏(An_Analysis_of_the_Writing_Styles_of_Mark_Twain)英文版全文.doc
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马克吐温写作风格鉴赏(An_Analysis_of_the_Writing_Styles_of_Mark_Twain)英文版全文马克吐温写作风格鉴赏(An_Analysis_of_the_Writing_Styles_of_Mark_Twain)英文版全文
An Analysis of the Writing Styles of Mark Twain
His colloquial Language and Satire in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1.2 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The best work that Mark Twain ever produced is, as we noted earlier on, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It tells a story about the United States before the Civil War, around 1850, when the great Mississippi Valley was still being settled. Here lies an America, with its great national faults, full of violence and even cruelty, yet still retaining the virtues of ‘some simplicity, some innocence, and some peace.’ The story takes place along the Mississippi River, on both sides of which there was unpopulated wilderness and a dense forest. It relates the story of the escape of Jim from slavery and, more important, how Huck Finn, floating along with him and helping him as best he could, changes his mind, his prejudice about black people, and comes to accept Jim as a man and as a close friend as well.
At the heart of Twain’s achievement is his creation of Huck Finn, who embodies that mythic America, midway between the wilderness and the modern super state.
II. Analyzing Two Writing Styles of Mark Twain (in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)
Mark Twain was the first important writer to consistently use the American speech rather than England’s English. His honor, whether it was aimed at pure entertainment or at social satire, was irresistible. His realism, and details influenced many later American novelists. That was why Ernest Hemingway once said “all modern American literatures came from one book written by Mark Twain called The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” And it became Twain’s masterpiece. Mark Twain’s three years’ life on that returned to the Mississippi left such a fond memory with him that returned to the theme more than once in his writing career. Huckleberry Finn is a veritable recreation of living models, and is Huck’s book, not Jim’s. The two major characters, Huck and Jim, r
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