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1、,Group 3：Li Qian Wang Yaoyao Xu Ruiduo Cao Yuanwei Jiang Xin Niu Juanjuan,The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,Author introduction and the writing background,Contents,Main characters,The plot overview,The novel language and expression skills,The theme and writing significance,The comments and historical sta

2、tus,By: Li Qian,Mark Twain，the celebrated writer and elocutionist（演说家）in America, whose real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens.,Mark Twain wrote a lot of literary work in his life, including novels, plays, essays, poetry, etc.,Criticizes the unreasonable phenomenon or the ugliness of human nature,He

3、is known as Lincoln of the American literature history .,He died on April 21, 1910, at age seventy-five, buried in New York state,The origin of the pen name,The sailor term;,The depth of water is 3 feet;,This is the necessary principle for safe navigation.,The origin of the pen name,the captain of C

4、yrus;,imitate his style wrote a very sharp satire（讽刺文学）;,4years later, the captain died.,Mark Twains father died when he is 12. The schooling had to be suspended. Severed as a navigator of the Mississippi River, miners and journalists , etc. Mark Twain is the representative of American critical real

5、ism literature, his inspiration comes from every aspect of social reality. To explore some profound social problems in his works, Mark Twain had a more sober understanding of the social reality under prosperity surface.,Literary works,Running for Governor,Goldsmith Friend Abroad Again,Roughing It,Th

6、e Man That Corrupted Hardleybug,Journalismin Tennessee,Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,By: Jiang Xin,Characters Lists,Tom Sawyer,The novels main character: Tom is a mischievous and adventurous boy with an active imagination who spends most of the time getting himself in trouble. Despite his mischief,

7、 Tom has a good heart and a strong moral conscience. He becomes more and more mature as the story progresses.,Huckleberry Finn,Huck is Toms best friend and fellow adventurer. Abandoned by his drunken father, he lives on his own and by his own rules. Huck is very independent. Most adults disapprove o

8、f him and other children envy him for his freedom.,Joe Harper,Toms best friend and playmate. He ,Tom and Huck spent their “pirate life” that they had been longing for on Jacksons Island,Becky Thatcher,Judge Thatchers pretty and cute daughter. She is Toms loved one. She stirs Toms lively romantic sen

9、sibility. Naive at first, Becky soon matches Tom as a romantic strategist.,Aunt Polly,Polly is Toms aunt and guardian. Aunt Polly is a nice lady but she can be mean and strict at times. Overall, Aunt Polly just wants to be loved by the most important people Sid and Tom in her life at the moment.,Oth

10、er Characters,Muff Potter: A “drunkard”, he help the doctor Robinson rob a tomb in order to earn money to buy drinks , But he were framed for murder by associates of Indian Joe, after due to Toms brave testimony he was proved innocent.,Injun Joe: An Indian, insidious and when he helped Dr. Robinson

11、rob a grave with Muff Potter he killed the doctor. and pinned the accusation on Muff Potter. In the end he starved to death in a cave because of greed .,Dr. Robinson: A villagers, was killed for refusing to pay the extra by Injun Joe.,Judge Thatcher :The Beckys father, is a great figure in St Peters

12、burg Town.,Widow Douglas: Beautiful, kind and rich, Because Huck had saved her life, and later adopted him.,The Widow Douglas,Relationship,Tom Sawyer,Huckleberry Finn,Joe Harper,adopts,friend,friend,Injun Joe,cave,Becky Thatcher,Aunt Polly,Girl friend,Muff Potter,Judge Thatcher,father,Dr. Robinson,k

13、illed,imputed,rob a grave(盗墓),Pirate(海盗),By: Wang Yaoyao,Toms mother died in his childhood, then he was adopted by Aunt Polly. The smart naughty boy can not stand Aunt Polly and teachers discipline, and he often played truant and got in trouble.,Beginning Of the story,1、Test the guts in the cemetery

14、 at midnight to with Huck,Adventures starting ,2、Go to Jacksons Island to be a “pirate” with Huck and Joe,3、Hunt treasure in a haunted house with Huck,4、Get lost in McDougals cave with Becky,5、Hunt treasure in the cave with Huck again,One night Tom and his friend Huck went to the cemetery for fun, a

15、ccidentally witnessed a murder occurred. Fearing retaliation, they did not dare to expose the truth. However，after a fierce ideological struggle, Tom finally gathered the courage to testify against the murderer Injun Joe in court.,Tom, Joe and Huck ran away from home together. And they rode a raft t

16、o an island up to become pirates“ and lived happily for some time. People did not know their whereabouts, and thought they were drowned in the river. On the day of their funeral, the trio miraculously appeared.,When Tom and Huck hunted treasure in a haunted house, they found Injun Joe and his cohort

17、s was burying money. They were almost found. But thanks to the stairs collapsed, they escaped. Later, Huck tracked Injun Joe and found that they wanted to murder the widow Douglas. Huck hurried knocking on a neighbors door for help. The widow rescued.,In a picnic, Tom and Becky got lost in a cave. D

18、uring three days, they suffered cold and hunger and faced with the threat of death In the end, they walked out of the cave, and the villagers found them. They told experience in the cave, then villagers blocked the cave. Tom and Becky told the villagers they had seen Injun Joe in the cave. Then vill

19、agers found Injun Joe already dead in the cave.,Tom and Huck returned to the cave and found a lot of treasure. They became the hero of the village.,End Of the story,Later, Huck was adopted by the widow because of his rescue. She taught him manners and let him wear clean clothes, but Huck can not sta

20、nd those. One day he disappeared. Tom discovered he was asleep in an empty cask. Huck only felt free when wearing ragged. In the end, they were planning new adventures.,By: Yu Juanjuan,Humor “The irony from life is the real irony” Life is the source of humor and humor could only be reflected by life

21、. He combined the realism and humorous together criticizes the dark society.,satire Although satire is usually meant to be funny,its greater purpose is ofen construcive social criticism,using wit as a weapon. In tom sawyer,he is content with mild admonions about the human race.,“Tom surveyed his las

22、t touch with the eye of an artist” “Tom gave up the brush with reluctance in his face,but alacrity in his heart.” “if he hadnit run out of whitewash he would have bankrupted every boy in the village”,From this, we can see Mark twains humorus .it is full of childrens intersts On the other hand,from t

23、his conversasion,we can see the satire.Twain points out the gullubility of man:in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing,it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.,Colloquial Language Mark Twain adopts the American colloquial languages.His words are vivid,concrete and direct in

24、effect,and his sentence stuctures are simple,even ungrammatical. Local color Vernacular language,“Say ,Jim,I,ll fetch the water if you will whitewash some.” “Cant,Mars Tom.Ole missis,she tole me I got to go angit dis water annot stop foolinroun wid anybody.she say she specMars Tom gwine to ax me to

25、white wash anso she tole me to go long antend to” my own bussinessshelowed she tend to dewhitewashin”,Figures of Speech Exaggeration and metaphor are used to provide enphasis, freshness of expression, or clarity. such language enriched the readers effect of vivid scenes.,“At last he was satisfied th

26、at time had ceased and eternity began.” “To which Tom responded with jeers,and started off in high feather”-Here “feather is compared as ones spirit”,By: Cao Yuanwei,Understood by the following parts,a epitome of the American society a sarcasm and criticism of the vulgar social custom, hypocritical religious rites, fusty school education. a mirror of the bad act of the greedy people a reflection of the society which is full of people of seeking fame and gain,The background,Written for children,Because it is written for the children, we can understand this novel more from t