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1、The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,Contents,The Background,Main Characters,Plot Overview,Analysis of Tom Sawyer,About The background,In the mid-19th century,the southern part of the United States is plantation slavery,the northern part is bourgeois employee labor system,the contradictions between these tw

2、o kinds of systems caused the political and economic oppositions,and concentrated on the issue about supporting and opposing the slavery system,and this caused the civil war.The novel satirizes the foolish religion and condemned the sin of slavery by describing white kids with a fugitive slave lived

3、 in a vagabonds life in the mississippi river,and propagandizes the idea that everyone enjoys the rights of freedom regardless of race.,Main Character: 1.Tom Sawyer A mischievous (淘气的，恶作剧的)boy with an active imagination ,who always involved into troubles. Despite his mischief(顽皮，恶作剧), Tom has a good

4、 heart and a strong moral conscience. 2. Aunt Polly Tom aunt and guardian (监护人). 3. Huckleberry Finn An “outsider” to the respectable society. 4.Joe Harper Toms best friend and frequent playmate. 5. Becky Thatcher A girl Tom falls in love with at the fist time they meet with each other. 6.Dr. Robins

5、on A doctor who is killed by Injun (印第安人)Joe. 7. Injun Joe A violent, villainous (恶毒的，罪恶的)man who commits murder, becomes a robber, and plans to kill the Widow Douglas. 8. Muff Potter A drunk fisherman who loves children. He often helps mend the childrens kites and helps them fish.,Plot overview,Aft

6、er playing hooky(逃学) from school on Friday and dirtying his clothes in a fight, Tom is punished to whitewash Aunt Pollys fence on Saturday morning when other children can go out and play. He manages to make his hard work very novel and interesting that arouse the curiosity of other children who pass

7、 the fence. Hard work appears so fascinating and children are willing to trade their own treasure for the privilege of whitewashing, and everyone enjoy doing it.,Tom falls in love with Becky, a new girl in town, shows off in all sorts of absurd boyish ways to win her admiration.He persuades her to g

8、et “engaged” to him. Their romance collapses when she learns that Tom has been “engaged” beforeto a girl named Amy Lawrence. Shortly after being shunned by Becky, Tom accompanies Huckleberry Finn, the son of the town drunk, to the graveyard at night to try out a cure for warts (疣)with a dead cat.,At

9、 the graveyard,they see Injun Joe murders Dr. Robinson and then places the knife he used in the hand of Muff Potter who falls unconsciously . When Potter wakes up, Joe tells him he was the murderer. Scared, Tom and Huck run away and swear a blood oath(誓约) not to tell anyone what they have seen. Pott

10、er is wrongfully arrested, and Toms anxiety and guilt begin to grow.,Tom, Huck, and Toms friend Joe Harper run away to an island to become pirates(海盗). While frolicking(嬉戏) around and enjoying their new found freedom, the boys become aware that the community is sounding the river for their bodies. T

11、om sneaks back home one night to observe the commotion. After a brief moment of remorse(懊悔) at the suffering of his loved ones, Tom is struck by the idea of appearing at his funeral and surprising everyone. He persuades Joe and Huck to do the same. Their return is met with great rejoicing, and they

12、become the envy and admiration of all their friends.,Back in school, Tom gets himself back in Beckys favor after he nobly accepts the blame for a book that she has ripped. Soon, Muff Potters trial(审判)begins, and Tom, overcome by guilt, testifies against Injun Joe. Potter is acquitted(无罪释放), but Inju

13、n Joe flees the courtroom through a window.,Summer arrives,Tom and Huck go hunting for buried treasure in a haunted house. And they see Injun Joe enter the house with his company and plan to bury some stolen treasure of their own. By an amazing coincidence, Injun Joe and his partner find a buried bo

14、x of gold themselves. When they see Tom and Hucks tools, they become suspicious that someone is sharing their hiding place and carry the gold off instead of reburying it.,Tom and Becky become lost in a cave. The men of the town begin to search for them, but to no avail(徒然). They run out of food and

15、candles and begin to weaken. The horror of the situation increases when Tom, looking for a way out of the cave, come across Injun Joe，and he mistakes them for the people who want to arrest him and run away. At last, Tom finds a way out . The whole town celebrates their return.,A week later, Tom take

16、s Huck to the cave and they find the box of gold, the proceeds of which are invested for them. The Widow Douglas adopts Huck, and, when Huck attempts to escape civilized life, Tom promises him that if he returns to the widow, he can join Toms robber band. Reluctantly, Huck agrees.,Analysis of Tom Sa

17、wyer,Tom Sawyer,a story of a boys adventures filled with curiosity and imagination created by Mark Twain,has attracted young readers and captured their general feeling one generation after another.Sparking with mischief,jumping with youthful adventure.Mark Twains Tom Sawyer is one of the most splend

18、id recreations of childhood in all of literature.Tom Sawyer is the first of a long line of adolescent heroes in American fiction.,Theme,The book criticizes the hypocritical(虚伪的) society, adult world, religion. It sings a song for freedom and childrens world. The author enjoys the boyhood.The book re

19、flects the authors own thinking to the society and his dissatsifaction to the society and religion.,Analysis of this novel from childrens perspective,1. Childrens Navet (天真，幼稚)and Innocence Tom Sawyer who has the characteristics of children in general. Confronted with any kind of circumstances, Tom

20、responds by making a game of it, by relying on his reading, by posing or acting out a part. 2.Playing Truant (旷课) He tries to truant by deceiving, but failed. 3.Love-affair Mark Twain also writes about what children feel about those of the opposite sex. 4.Childish Imitation Tom asks Becky for a kiss

21、 only because that is ritual he has read about in books when people get engaged.,5. Childrens Curiosity Behavior When Mark Twain creates Tom Sawyer and other characters in the story, he gives prominence to childrens curiosity, attempting to capture the general feeling of young readers. 6.The Tendenc

22、y to Heroism Tom wishes to travel around the world, to be a soldier, a plainsman, a pirate .At the end of the story, after experiencing much terror, Tom, along with Huck, discovers the hidden treasure in the cave which makes Tom a rich and important person in the community. 7. Childrens Idyllic Outl

23、ook of the World For Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer is an attempt to idealize boyhood, to see in it his dream of peace and innocence that cannot endure in the adult world.,Flexible, Varied, Fluid(流畅的) Mark Twain certainly has a flexible style; he can suit his words quite easily to the situation, whether he

24、is describing the thoughts of Tom or expounding upon some lofty subject. That is to say, one of the most impressive aspects of his writing is the dialogue. Rather than try to describe it.,Writing Style,Writing Style,Tom, having just barely survived an encounter with Injun Joe the night before, goes

25、to talk with Huck: Hello, Huck! Hello, yourself.“ Silence, for a minute. Tom, if wed a left the blame tools at the dead tree, wed a got the money. Oh, ain t it awful! T ai n t a dream, then, t ain t a dream! Somehow I most wish it was. Dog d if I dont,Huck.(27.4-8) Mark Twain renders the rhythm of t

26、he speech beautifully, using contractions and slang to give life to Tom and Hucks speech.Small touches,like the wed a and dogd go along way toward making them sound like real boys.Even that bracketed(相等的) pause speaks volumes. Without suitable dialogue,all of Twains observations and remarks would be like a cake without icing:still delicious,but not quite right.,Tone,Humorous,Knowing Although The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is by no means an autobiography,Mark Twain is most definitely writing from life experience.He sou