文学9-Mark_Twain.pptVIP

Lecture 9Mark Twain Teaching target and focus: 1. Mark Twain’s life, representative works, writing styles. 2. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer:p.42 /play/230/play-166730.html?fid=1324 Mark Twain (1835-1910)Realistic novelist, journalist, humorist, first American writer who used the American vernacular language.He won a worldwide audience for his stories of youthful adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Group work Mark Twain’s Life :p.40 Q1: What kind of jobs did he do? Q2: What’s his original name? Why did he adopt the pseudonym ‘Mark Twain’ and Why is the choice of name ironic