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1、A,1,Mark Twain Mirror of America,A,2,Group members: 孙慧、朱琳、刘娟、 李颖余、李旭阳、吴超,A,3,Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 April 21, 1910), well known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist, essayist and lecturer .Mark Twain is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Fi

2、nn (1884), which has been called “the Great American Novel”, and the Adventures of Tom Sawyer.,A,4,Introduce in detail,Writing Features,Comment,Major works,A,5,Mark Twain was born in Florida, Missouri, on November 30, 1835. He was the sixth of seven children. Only three of his siblings survived chil

3、dhood. Twain was born two weeks after the closest approach to Earth of Halleys Comet. On December 4, 1985, the United States Postal Service issued a stamped envelope for Mark Twain and Halleys Comet.,Introduce in detail,A,6,Mark Twain and Halleys Comet,A,7,When Twain was four, his family moved to Ha

4、nnibal, Missouri, a port town on the Mississippi River. At that time, Missouri was a slave state, and young Twain became familiar with the institution of slavery, a theme he would later explore in his writing.,A,8,In March 1847, when Twain was 11, his father died of pneumonia(肺炎). The next year, he

5、became a printers apprentice（学徒）. In 1851, he began working as a typesetter and contributor of articles and humorous sketches for the Hannibal Journal, a newspaper owned by his brother Orion.,A,9,When he was 18, he left Hannibal and worked as a printer in New York City, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and

6、Cincinnati. He joined the union and educated himself in public libraries in the evenings, finding wider sources of information than he would have at a conventional（传统的） school. At 22, Twain returned to Missouri.,A,10,As a young man Twain worked as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River. When he

7、started his writing career, Samuel Clemens adopted the name “Mark Twain,” which meant two fathoms, a safe depth for a riverboat.,Pictures from ,A,11,In 1861, Samuel Clemens avoided the brewing Civil War by going west. He took his first writing job as reporter at the Virginia City Territor

8、ial Enterprise.,Pictures from ,A,12,At the age of 34,he married Olivia Langdon Clemens. She was the daughter of a New York coal magnate, a member of the countrys wealthy elite. She would also furnish him her familys home in Elmira, New York, a place where he visited often and wrote many o

9、f his best-loved books.,Pictures from ,A,13,Because of financial problems, Clemens lived in Europe from 1891-1901, but this was neither his first nor last trip abroad. In fact, he was an inveterate traveler. From the age of 17 to the last few weeks of his life he was always discovering ne

10、w places and revisiting old. He crisscrossed the Atlantic more than a dozen times and also saw Turkey, Palestine, Hawaii, Australia, India, and South Africa.,A,14,By 1900 Twain had become Americas foremost celebrity. He achieved great success as a writer and public speaker. His wit and satire earned

11、 praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty,Pictures from ,A,15,His Later Life,There are many tragic events in his later life: the failure of his investments, his fatiguing travels and lectures in order to pay off his de

12、bts, and added to this, the death of his wife and two daughters which left him absolutely inconsolable. Some critics link these tragic events with the change of style in his later works, from an optimist and humorist to an almost despairing determinist.,A,16,When he died on April 21, 1910, newspaper

13、s around the country declared, “The whole world is mourning.” By then, Samuel Clemens had long since ceased to be a private citizen. He had become Mark Twain, a proud possession of the American nation.,A,17,Grave of Mark Twain Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, NY,A,18,A,19,Major works,works,A,20,A,21,Life

14、on the Mississippi” 密西西比河上,This work is a memoir by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before and after the American Civil War,A,22,The Adventures of Tom Sawyer（汤姆索亚历险记),This novel talked about a young boy called Tom Sawyer growing up along the Mississippi Ri

15、ver. It describes children pursuit of novelty and adventure life.,最伟大的儿童文学作品,A,23,The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 哈克贝利费恩历险记,This book is about how to set the slaves free and how to come true ones dreams,A,24,The mysterious stranger(神秘的陌生人),He insisted that man drop his religious illusions and dep

16、end upon himself, not Providence(神) to make a better world. 他指出人类应该摒弃宗教幻想，依靠自己而不是上帝的力量，去创造一个更加完美的世界。,A,25,Other works,The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg 败坏了哈德莱堡的人 Roughing It 苦行记 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 汤姆索亚历险记 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 哈克贝利费恩历险记,马克吐温四大名著,A,26,Running for Governor竞选州长 T

17、he Million Pound Note 百万英镑 The Gilded Age镀金时代 The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 卡拉维拉斯县驰名的跳蛙 The innocent abroad傻子出国记,A,27,Literature is an art of language. Mark Twains language is artistic and like a sharp weapon without doubt. Mark Twain is famous for his humor and satire. He used the

18、 artistic style of hyperbole（夸张法 ）on the basis of the western traditional humor and made his writing full of allegories that lay behind the humor.,Mark Twains Writing Features,A,28,Mark Twains Writing Features,local color,representing social life through portraits of local places which he knew best,

19、drawing from his own rich fund of knowledge of people and places,tall tales (highly exaggerated 夸张),a texture of most local color literature, a kind of humor,A,29,A Master of Language,short concrete （具体） direct in effect,simple, even ungrammatical,sentence & structures,words,He used colloquial (口语化)

20、language, vernacular（地方性） language, dialects （方言）,American dialect,“Mark Twain was the first truly American writer, and all of us since are his heirs, who descended from him.” （William Faulkner）,Mark Twains Writing Features,An American language,A,30,Mark Twains Writing Features,humor,is of witty rem

21、arks mocking（讥讽） at small things and making people laugh,is a kind of artistic style used to criticize the social injustice,A,31,A Brief Assessment Mark Twain is a part of America. His personal success and failure were those of America. He moved, along with America, from innocence to experience. Ernest Hemingway : All modern American literatur