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1、A Mirror of AmericaA Mirror of AmericaLETS GOICONTENTSSecond part.(His writing)1.Mark Twain and 1.Mark Twain and the the MississippiMississippi.2.Major Works.3.Writing Featuresthird part.(Writing style)1.Life and Writing2.a Local Colorist3.Use of Vernacular4.HumorFourth part.(Others)1.His Famous His

2、 Famous WordsWords2.A Mirror of A Mirror of AmericaAmericaFirst part.(His exeperience)1.Early life experience1.Early life experience2.His Marriage2.His Marriage3.In His Middle Ages3.In His Middle Ages4.His Later Life4.His Later Life5.His Death5.His DeathPART ONEFirst part.(His exeperience)1.Early li

3、fe experience1.Early life experience2.His Marriage2.His Marriage3.In His Middle Ages3.In His Middle Ages4.His Later Life4.His Later Life5.His Death5.His DeathTwains real name was Samuel Clemens.Mark Twain,which meanswatermark two,was a call used by sailors on the Mississippi to warn shipmates that t

4、hey were coming into shallow water.The Name of Mark TwainThe Name of Mark TwainMark Twain(1835-1910)Mark Twain(1835-1910)Mark Twain was a great American writer,and he was also a famous speaker.Samuel Langhorne Clemens(Mark Twain)was born in Florida and he was not a healthy baby.In fact,he was not ex

5、pected to live through the first winter.But with his mothers tender care,he managed to survive.As a boy,he caused much trouble for his parents.He used to play jokes on all of his friends and neighbors.He didnt like to go to school,and he constantly ran away from home.Early life experienceEarly life

6、experienceBorn in a little town in MississippiAt 11,he lost his fatherAt 13,he stopped schoolingTramp printerSteamboat pilot on the MississippiConfederate guerrillaProspectorReporter on the far western frontierTraveler abroadHis MarriageHis MarriageAt 34 years old he married Olivia Langdon Clemens,d

7、aughter of a New York coal magnate,a member of the countrys wealthy elite.She would be partner,editor,and fellow traveler in success and failure for the next thirty-five years.In His Middle AgesIn His Middle AgesBy 1900 Twain had become Americas foremost celebrity.He was invited to attend ship launc

8、hings,anniversary gatherings,political conventions,and countless dinners.Reporters met him at every port of call,anxious to print a new quip from the famous humorist.To enhance his image,he took to wearing white suits and loved to stroll down the street and see people staring at him.His Later LifeHi

9、s Later LifeThere are many tragic events in his later life:the failure of his investments,his fatiguing travels and lectures in order to pay off his debts,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 c

10、hange of style in his later works,from an optimist and humorist to an almost despairing determinist.His DeathHis Death Mark Twain died of illness on April 21,1910.When he passed away,newspapers around the country declared,“The whole world is mourning.”By then,Sam Clemens had long since ceased to be

11、a private citizen.He had become Mark Twain,a proud possession of the American nation.PART TWOSecond part.(His writing)1.Mark Twain and the 1.Mark Twain and the MississippiMississippi.2.Major Works.3.Writing FeaturesMark Twain and the Mark Twain and the MississippMississippiMark Twain loved the great

12、 river so much that he always went in the direction of the nearby Mississippi.Many of his great works are set in the background of the Mississippi River,such as the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,the Adventures of Tom Sawyer,and Life on the Mississippi.Samuel Clemens Major WorksThe Gilded Age 镀金时代镀金

13、时代 written in collaboration with Charles Dudley WarnerLife on the Mississippi 密西西比河上密西西比河上A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court亚瑟王朝里亚瑟王朝里的康涅狄格州美国佬的康涅狄格州美国佬The Man That Corrupted Hardleybug败坏了哈德莱堡的人败坏了哈德莱堡的人The Mysterious Stranger 神秘的陌生人神秘的陌生人AutobiographyThese works contain bitter attacks on th

14、e human raceThe Innocents Abroad 傻子国外旅行记Roughing It艰难岁月Puddnhead Wilson傻瓜维尔逊The Prince and the Pauper王子与贫民 American Claimant美国申请人 Mark Twains Writing FeaturesHabitsHe used a lot of colloquial idioms and colloquial syntax.he used colloquial language,vernacular language,dialects shortconcrete direct i

15、n effectwordssimple,even ungrammaticalsentence&structuresMark Twains Writing FeaturesHe often described persons who was innocent,simple,naive,and ignorant as his heroes or heroines.PART THREEthird part.(Writing style)1.Life and Writing2.a Local Colorist3.Use of Vernacular4.HumorMark Twains Life and

16、Writing:Mark Twain is a great literary giant of America,whom H.L.Mencken considered“the true father of our national literature.”With works like Adventure of Huckleberry Finn 哈克贝利芬历险记哈克贝利芬历险记(1884)and Life on the Mississippi密西密西西比河上的生活西比河上的生活(1883)Twain shaped the worlds view of America and made a mo

17、re extensive combination of American folk humor and serious literature than previous writers had ever done.Mark Twain,Pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens,was born on November 30,1835,in Missouri,and grew up in the river town of Hannibal.After his father died,he began to seek his own fortune.He once

18、 worked as a journeyman printer,a steamboat pilot,a newspaper columnist and as a lecturer.Twains writing took the form of humorous journalism of the time,and it enabled him to master the technique of narration.25%Twain as a Local Colorist50%Twain is also known as a local colorist,who preferred to pr

19、esent social life through portraits of the local characters of his regions,including people living in that area,the landscape,and other peculiarities like the customs,dialects,costumes and so on.Consequently,the rich material of his boyhood experience on the Mississippi became the endless resources

20、for his fiction,and the Mississippi valley and the West became his major theme.Unlike James and Howells,Mark Twain wrote about the lower-class people,because they were the people he knew so well and their life was the one he himself had lived.Moreover he successfully used local color and historical

21、settings to illustrate and shed light on the contemporary society.Twains Use of Vernacular76%Another fact that made Twain unique is his magic power with language,his use of vernacular.His words are colloquial,concrete and direct in effect,and his sentence structures are simple,even ungrammatical,whi

22、ch is typical of the spoken language.And Twain skillfully used the colloquialism to cast his protagonists in their everyday life.Whats more,his characters,confined to a particular region and to a particular historical moment,speak with a strong accent,which is true of his local colorism.Besides,diff

23、erent characters from different literary or cultural backgrounds talk differently,as is the case with Huck,Tom,and Jim.Indeed,with his great mastery and effective use of vernacular,Twain has made colloquial speech an accepted,respectable literary medium in the literary history of the country.His sty

24、le of language was later taken up by his descendants,Sherwood Anderson and Ernest Hemingway,and influenced generations of letters.His Humor99%Mark Twains humor is remarkable,too.It is fun to read Twain to begin with,for most of his works tend to be funny,containing some practical jokes,comic details

25、,witty remarks,etc.,and some of them are actually tall tales(荒诞不荒诞不经的故事经的故事).By considering his experience as a newspaperman,Mark Twain shared the popular image of the American funny man whose punning,facetious,irreverent articles filled the newspapers,and a great deal of his humor is characterized

26、by puns,straight-faced exaggeration,repetition,and anti-climax,let alone tricks of travesty and invective.However,his humor is not only of witty remarks mocking at small things or of farcical elements making people laugh,but a kind of artistic style used to criticize the social injustice and satiriz

27、e the decayed romanticism.Mark Twains MasterpiecesMark Twains MasterpiecesPART FOURFourth part.(Others)1.His Famous WordsHis Famous Words2.A Mirror of AmericaA Mirror of AmericaHis Famous WordsHis Famous Words“Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early,and that not even birds should d

28、o it unless they are out of worms.”70%55%“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”40%His Famous WordsHis Famous WordsThe Project“The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that will last through a whole lifetime,if not asked t

29、o lend money.Product OneVIEW MORE“Of all Gods creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash.That one is the cat.If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man,but it would deteriorate the cat.”Product TwoVIEW MORE“Nothing is made in vain,but the fly came near it.”“

30、Id rather have ten snakes in the house than one fly.”Product ThreeVIEW MOREA Mirror of AmericaA Mirror of America1.“Mirror”here means a person who gives a true representation or description of the country.2.Generally speaking,all literary giants in human history are also great historians,thinkers and philosophers.Their works often reveal more truth than many political essays.3.Mark Twain was one of these giants,and his life and works are a mirror of America of his time.THANK YOUMark Twain