realism(Mark Twain).ppt

Local Colorism Time: late 1860s---end of the 19th century Characteristics: Novels with the setting, speech, customs and values typical to one particular place Influence: to inspire famous writers like John Steinbeck and William Faulkner. Mark Twain (1835-1910) 1.His life Samuel Langhorne Clemens Born in small town on Mississippi River Little education but rich experience—(printer apprentice, tramp printer, silver miner, steamboat pilot, frontier journalist), so he had wide knowledge of humanity Tragic events in his late years changed him to a despairing cynical writer. Mark Twain (1835-1910) Works: with the publication of his frontier tale “The Celebrated Frog of Calaveras Country”, he became nationally famous. First novel The Gilded Age (1873), artistic failure, but gave name to America of post-war period Gilded Age (1878-1889)  Mark Twain (1835-1910) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), an immediate book as a boy’s book The Adventure of Huck Finn (1884), Sequel of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, masterpiece “all modern American literature comes” (Hemingway’s comment) Mark Twain (1835-1910) Life on the Mississippi (1883), another masterpiece change from optimist and humorist to despairing determinist, bitter attack on human being A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court (1889), The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg (1900), The Mysterious Stranger ( 1916), Autobiography (1924) The Adventure of Huck Finn Setting: in the town on the banks of the Mississippi River before Civil War. Plot: P135 The Adventure of Huck Finn Beginning: Huckleberry Finn, a poor boy with a drunken father, and his friend Tom Sawyer, an over-imaginative middle-class boy, found robber’s gold, and Huck’s share was in the bank. Huck was adopted by the Widow Douglas, a kind but stifling woman who lives with her sister, the self-righteous Miss Watson who desires to civilize Huck. The Adventure of Huck Finn Huck’s brutish, drunken father, Pap, reappears and