马克吐温生平（Life of Mark and Twain）.docVIP

马克吐温生平（Life of Mark and Twain） childhood Mark Twin was born in November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri, a poor rural lawyer family. He is the sixth child of 7 children in the family. He has two brothers and sisters can survive after childhood, his two brothers and sisters is Clemens brother Olean (Orion Clemens) (July 17, 1825 - December 11, 1897) and sister Pamela (Pamela) (September 19, 1827 - August 31, 1904). His mother, Margaret (Margaret) died at the age of four, while his brother Benjamin (June 8, 1832 - May 12, 1842) died three years later in Benjamin. His other brother, Pleasant (1828 - 1829), lived only three months before Twain was born. After the older brother and sister of Mark Twain, Twain has another brother, Henry Clemens (Henry Clemens) (July 13, 1838 - June 21, 1858). When Twain was 4 years old, the family moved to Missouri Hannibal (Hannibal) a Mississippi River port city, which became his later works the adventures of Tom Soya and Huckleberry Finn in St Petersburg city of inspiration. At that time, Missouri was the slave state of the union, and the young Twain began to understand slavery, which became the subject of later adventures in his novels. Mark Twin is colour blind, and this arouses his witty jokes in social circles. In March 1847, when Twain was 11 years old, his father died of pneumonia. The following year, he became a printing apprentice. In 1851, he became a compositor, contributed, and began writing drafts for his brother Orion in the Hannibal Journal. At the age of 18, he left Hannibal and worked as a printer in New York, Philadelphia, Saint Louis and Cincinnati. At the age of 22, Twain returned to Missouri. In the lower Mississippi River to New Orleans, steamboat pilot Bishibi Twain to become lifelong steamboat pilot, and this was the American occupation wage third occupation, $250 per month (equivalent to $155000 today). Since ships were made of very flammable wood at that time, they were not allowed to turn on the lights in the ev