Works of Mark Twain 第六组

Representative Works 01 02 03 04 05 Innocents Abroad The Gilded Age The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 04 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 05 A Million-Pound Note

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 01 Writing background 02 Main characters 03 The plot overview 04 The novel language and expression skills

The Writing Background In 1876,the novel The Adventure of Tom Sawyer is published. The novel takes the small town on the Mississippi River as the background and welcomed by the readers of any age. Many interesting plots are author’s experience, which conform (符合)to the children’s phychology.

Characters Lists A B Main characters Tom Sawyer Huckeberry finn Joe Harper Becky Thatcher Aunt Polly Other characters Muff Potter Injun Joe Dr.Robinson Judge Thatcher Widow Douglas

Tom Sawyer The novel’s main character: Tom is a mischievous（淘气的） and adventures boy with an active imagination who spends most of the time getting himself in trouble. Despite his mischief, Tom has a good heart and a strong moral conscience. He becomes more and more muture as the story progresses.

Huckleberry Finn Huck is Tom’s 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 of him and other children envy him for his freedom.

Joe Harper Tom’s best friend and playmate. He, Tom and Huck spent their “pirate life” that they had been longing for on Jackson’s Island.

Beck Thatcher Judge Thatcher’s pretty and cute daughter. She is Tom’s loved one. She stirs（激起）Tom’s lively romantic sensibility. Naive at first, Becky soon matches Tom as a romantic strategist.

Aunt Polly Polly is Tom’s 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.

Other Characters Muff Poter: 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 Tom’s brave testimony he was proved innocent. Injun Joe: An Indian,insidious（阴险的） and when he helped Dr.Robinson rob a grave with Muff Potter he killed the doctor and planned the accusation on Muff Poter. In the end he starved to death in a cave because of greed.

Dr. Robinson: A villager, was killed for refusing to pay the extra by Injun Joe. Judge Thatcher: Becky’s father, is a great figure in St Petersburg Town Widow Douglas: Beautiful, kind and rich. Because Huck had saved her life she adopted him.

The plot overview Tom’s mother died in his childhood, then he was adopted by Aunt Polly. The smart naughty boy can not stand Aunt Polly and teacher’s discipline, and he often played truant （逃学）and got in trouble.

Adventures starting… 1.Test the guts in the cemetery at midnight with Huck. 2.Go to Jackson’s Island to be a “pirate” with Huck and Joe. 3.Hunt treasure in a haunted house with Huck. 4.Get lost in McDougal’s cave with Becky. 5.Hunt treasure in the cave with Huck again.

Later, Huck was adopted by the widow because of his rescue 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 stand those. One day he disappeared. Tom discovered he was asleep in empty cask. Huck only felt free when wearing ragged（衣衫褴褛）. In the end they were planning new adventures.

The novel language and expression skills B Humor Satire(讽刺) C D Colloquial(通俗的) Language Figures of Speech

Humor “The irony from life is the real irony”. Life is the source of humor and humor could only be reflected by life. He combined the realism and humorous together criticizes the dark society.

Figures of speech Exaggeration and metaphor are used to provide emphasis, freshness of expression, or clarity. Such language enriched the reader’s effect of vivid scenes.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 01 Characters 02 The story of Jim and Huck 03 Comments

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark twain’s masterpiece Published in 1884 It presents a vivid picture of American society in the 19th century

Huckberry Finn Adapted child Smart Love the nature Pursuit freedom Kindhearted Bravery Devoted to friend Strong-minded

Jim Slave Brave, dare to escape the slavery Faithful to Huck Warmhearted to friend Protective Make great help to the growth of Huck

The old morality in America Mark Twain put the story just before the civil war. At that time, the southerners took slavery for granted and did not feel guilty for that.

Huck and Jim:The White-and-Black Relationship How a white and a black could be friends? Huck is a white boy while Jim a black slave. At beginning, Huck is hesitate whether he should help Jim escape. His education and traditional conception in mind tells him that it is illegal to help a slave run away.

Huck finally convince himself no to tell the secret that Jim is a run away slave and run risk to save Jim out of the hut where Jim lost his freedom again. At the end of the novel，Huck gets to know the importance of love and responsibility.

Ernest Hemingway said: “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. ... There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since”.

Thanks