美国独立战争,西进运动,淘金热英文介绍.ppt

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Background American capitalism has entered a period of monopoly in the 1870s. Mark Twain created the book at this time. He put his childhoods experiences into the novel, and had his own thoughts and the epitome of that time, to make the novel out of the general style of the children’s memory and full of characteristics of the time. Characters Tom Sawyer A mischievous child and always makes a lot of mischieves. Huckleberry Finn The friend of Tom Sawyer His father is always drinking so he ran out of home. The main plot One night, they went to the cemetery and saw an unexpected scene. They witnessed that Indian Joe killed the doctor Robinson. But Joe put the duty on Potter who was unconscious at that time. Tom and Huck were terrified and promised to keep the secret. After Porter was arrested, Tom was so guilty that fled to an uninhabited island with his friend However, the villagers thought they were drowned and looked for their dead bodies. Tom felt so ashamed and came back on their “funerals”. Tom finally overcome the fear and said the truth that Joe is the murderer. Joe finally got the retribution. Theme This novel satisfies the boys’ hope for the fame, heroism, gold and silver wealth and adulation of the deepest aspirations, and vividly depicts the life in an American frontier town before the Civil War. This novel exposes the stagnation of vulgar life and the hypocrisy of religion. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Background Although Twain wrote the novel after slavery was abolished, America, especially the South was still struggling with racism and slavery . The fiercest conflict is the matter of blacks’ freedom . So you can see the whole story is about how to set Jim free. Characters Huckleberry Finn Naive and naughty Desiring to be free