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1、The Adventure of Tom Sawyer,Mark Twain,Mark Twain,Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. 1835-1910) was an American writera journalist who satirized the hypocrisy of man and societya humorist, who won a wo

2、rldwide audience for his stories of the youthful adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.,Life experience,In 1847 the death of his father brought an end to his carefree days, and he had to go to work at the age of

3、12 as a printer’s apprentice. In 1851, he began working as a typesetter and contributor of articles and humorous sketches for a newspaper owned by his brother.From 1857 to 1861,Twain worked as a riverboat pilot on the

4、Mississippi River. This occupation gave him his pen name, Mark Twain.On Mississippi riverboats, two fathoms, a depth indicating safe water for passage of boat, was measured on the sounding line.“Mark twain” was a call

5、used by sailors.,Humor,A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.銀行家在陽光照耀時借給你傘,開始下雨時又想要回來的人. 解釋:銀行是用錢生錢,不是慈善機構.如果你是個很好的企業(yè)或者人很有資信,他愿意把錢借給你,如果感

6、覺到你快破產(chǎn)了,肯定會想法設法把錢要回來.I didn't attend the funeral .but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.我未出席葬禮，但捎去了一封信，信上說，我同意。解釋:是在說討厭那家伙，死了活該,,His first success as a writer came when his humorous tall tale, &qu

7、ot;The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," was published in 1865. It brought him national attention. On February 2, 1870, Twain married Olivia Langdon, the only daughter of a wealthy New York bus

8、inessman. During his seventeen years, Twain wrote many of his classic novels：The Prince and the Pauper (1881) 《王子與貧兒》Life on the Mississippi (1883) 《密西西比河上的生活》 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Co

9、urt (1889) 《誤闖亞瑟王宮》,The tragic end of his life,the failure of his investments, his fatiguing travels and lectures in order to pay off his debts, the death of his wife and two daughtersthe darkening social life

10、 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.,,Mark Twain died of illness on April 21, 1910. When he passed a

11、way, newspapers around the country declared, “The whole world is mourning.”,,In thematic terms, Mark Twain dealt largely with the lower strata of society. Technically, Mark Twain’s contribution to the development of

12、 realism and to American literature as a whole was partly through his theories of localism in American fiction, and partly through his colloquial style,,Trilogy of Mississippi(密西西比河三部曲)Includes: Life on the Mississippi(

13、密西西比河上)The Adventures of Tom Sawyer(湯姆索亞歷險記)The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (哈克貝利?費恩歷險記)The mysterious stranger(神秘的陌生人)Running for Governor《競選州長》The £1,000,000 Bank-Note《百萬英鎊》The Gilded Age《鍍金時代》The Celeb

14、rated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County ( his first story) 《卡拉維拉斯縣馳名的跳蛙》The innocent abroad《傻子出國記》The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg 《敗壞了哈德萊堡的人》Roughing It《苦行記》,,The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a literary masterpieces

15、（杰作）, written in 1876 by the famous author Mark Twain. Tom Sawyer is a mischievous（淘氣的） young boy who lives in the small town on the Mississippi（密西西比河） River called St. Petersburg. The story line is simple, the book read

16、s like a biography （傳記）or a memoir （回憶錄）of a summer in Tom Sawyer‘s life. It was a microcosm（小規(guī)模地） of American life, We can learn from the novel rich and poor, churches and schools, religion and crime in all aspects of A

17、merican life at that time.,Extra explanation,,,,馬克·吐溫四大名著,The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg 《敗壞了哈德萊堡的人》Roughing It 《苦行記》The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 《湯姆·索亞歷險記》The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 《哈克貝利·

18、;費恩歷險記》,Words,1.Don‘t give up your imagination. When the imagination had no after, you can also exist, but although you living dead still. 不要放棄你的幻想。當幻想沒有了以后，你還可以生存，但是你雖生猶死。 2.Those persons who have a good book but don‘t

19、 read are unlike and can’t read the person of these books to own any advantage. 那些有好書卻不讀的人不比無法讀到這些書的人擁有任何優(yōu)勢。 3.As long as had ignorance and self-confidence, you can succeed by all means. 只要具備了無知和自信，你就必然能成功。,Thanks for y