Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn(1_4)2.ppt

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn哈克贝利·费恩历险记 by Mark Twain Mark Twain  (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)  American author humorist novelist great lecturer representative of realism in late 19th century “the Lincoln of American literature” “Father of the American Novel” --William Faulkner “the greatest of the American humorists” In 1835 be born in the town of Florida, Missouri In 1839 moved to a town on the Mississippi River spent his young life in a fairly affluent family that owned a number of household slaves In 1847 left the family after the death of his father In 1851 left school, worked for a printer In 1855 worked on riverboats on the Mississippi Mark Twain’s works Twain’s early works: 1) The celebrated Humping Frog of Calaveras County《卡县名蛙》 2) The Innocents Abroad《傻子国外旅行记》 3) Roughing It 《苦行记》 4) The Gilded Age《镀金时代》 5) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 《汤姆索亚历险记》 6) The Prince and the Pauper《王子与贫儿》 7) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court《在亚瑟王朝 的康涅狄克州的美国佬》 8) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 9) Life on the Mississippi《密西西比河上的生涯》 Twain’s late works: 1) The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson 《傻瓜威尔逊》 2) The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg 《败坏了赫德莱堡的人》 colloquial language, vernacular language, dialects local colourism syntactic feature: sentences are simple, brief, sometimes ungrammatical humour tall tales (highly exaggerated) social criticism (satire on the different ugly things in society) All modern American literature comes from on book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn....There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since. Characters * Brief Introduction Plot Character Analysis Theme Contents ------Mirror of America a person who gives a true representation or description of America . Mark Twain’s work is inspired by the unconventional West, and the popularity of his work marked the end of the domination of A