马克吐恩英文 ppt.ppt

 His life experience His major works His writing style His representative works Early life experience In 1835, Mark Twain was born in a poor family, and he had to work while he was in school. We all know the famous American author and humoristMark Twain, but few of us know his real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Early life experience When he was 4,his family moved to Missouri(密苏里州) slave state institution of slavery When he was 11, his father died. Therefore,he had to be sent to work. When he was 12,he became a printers apprentice. Early life experience When he was 16, he began working as a typesetter and contributor of articles and humorous sketches for the Hannibal Journal, a newspaper owned by his brother Orion. When he was 18, he left Hannibal and worked as a printer in New York Early life experience When he was 26, he joined Orion and became the governor of Nevada Territory, then he headed west. And he became a miner on the Comstock Lode. But he failed as a miner and worked at a Virginia City newspaper, the Territorial Enterprise. Working as a writer, he first used his pen name Mark Twain Early life experience When he was 32, he claimed to have fallen in love at first sight. When he was 34, Mark Twain and Olivea Langdon were married in New York. His Later Life Many tragic events in his later life: the failure of his investments the death of his wife and two daughters the dark social life Formter Residence Study Gravestone Sculpture His Major Works Language features: local colored artistic,humor,satire colloquial Subjects:social life in every respect Characters:people who was innocent, simple, naive, and ignorant Writing Style 谢谢！