哈克贝利费恩的性格特征.doc

【标题】哈克贝利?费恩的性格特征 【作者】杨琴 【关键词】哈克；性格特征；汤姆；吉姆；密西西比河 【指导老师】赵洪尹 翟赫 【专业】英语 【正文】Ⅰ. Introduction???Mark Twain is a remarkable representative of American realistic literature in the 19th Century. And he is the first writer who demonstrated in his works?“Americanization” and the literary language?“nationalize”. His delicate familiarities with children’s psychology, his thorough understanding of Americans and American society, and his great contributions to American English, have won great respect and reputation among the people around the world. With hard work, he has produced a large bulk of literary works in his life. In his works, he laughed at, satirized and criticized the worship of money, the hypocritical morality and corrupted politics. One of his friends Howells called him?“Lincoln of our literature”1; and a literary critic, H. L. Mencken believed that Mark Twain was?“the true father of our national literature, and the first genuine American artist of the blood royal of all the works Mark Twain accomplished in his life.”2The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of Mark Twain’s representative novels. It is a story about a young boy and a black slave, who in a desperate situation attempt to escape from the contemporary society and seek help on the Mississippi River, where they experience many trials. The novel took him eight years to finish and in 1884 it was published in Britain and then in America in 1885. After that, many critics at home and abroad sang highly of it. The Nobel Prize winner and American novelist, Hemingway believed that?“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.”3 During the course of over one hundred years after its publication, it was popular and among all walks of man. If we pay attention to the Mississippi River, we can find out the reason of Huckleberry Finn’s success.The book is noted for its innocent young protagonist, its colorful description of people and places along the Mississi