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一、The Adventures of the Huckleberry Finn ，Mark Twain 选段：Once I said to myself it would be a thousand times better for Jim to be a slave at home where his family was, as long as hed GOT to be a slave, and so Id better write a letter to Tom Sawyer and tell him to tell Miss Watson where he was. But I soon give up that notion for two things: shed be mad and disgusted at his rascality and ungratefulness for leaving her, and so shed sell him straight down the river again; and if she didnt, everybody naturally despises an ungrateful nigger, and theyd make Jim feel it all the time, and so hed feel ornery and disgraced. And then think of ME! It would get all around that Huck Finn helped a nigger to get his freedom; and if I was ever to see anybody from that town again Id be ready to get down and lick his boots for shame. (an excerpt from chapter 31) 1、Introduction：(1). It is a Sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer but much deeper and more mature in them and technique. It has always been regarded as one of the greatest books of western literature and western civilization. Hemingway described it as the book from which “ all modern American literature comes” (2). The book tells a story about the U.S. before the Civil War, and takes place along the Mississippi River. It relates the story of the escape of Jim from slavery and how Huck Finn, floating along with him and helping him as best he could, changes his mind, his prejudice about Black people, and comes to accept Jim as a man and as a close friend as well. (3). It is a veritable recreation of living models. Most of the major characters had prototypes in real life. The portrayal of individual incidents and characters achieved intense verisimilitude of detail. Serious problems are being discussed through the narration of a little illiterate boy. The fact of the wilderness juxtaposed with civilization. Though a local and particular book, it touches upon the human condition in general indeed universal way: Humanism ultimatel