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Photos of Mark Twain More Photos (1) Life A. Mark Twain is the pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. “Mark Twain” means “two fathom’s depth of navigable water”. B. He lived in a town named Hannibal along the Mississippi when he was a child. His life experience in the town was used in his famous novels. C. His father died when he was 12 and then he left school. D. He lived on all kinds of odd jobs and then went to the West. He worked as a reporter there and wrote lots of frontier humors. E. After marriage he moved to New England and then gradually became a famous writer. F. His late life was a tragedy. (failure of investment, death of his wife and two daughters) (2) Works Short story Novels Social Critic Short story most famous one is “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” (a frontier humor which made Twain become famous) “The Million Pound Note” “Running for Governor” Novels “The Gilded Age” (The novel is not an excellent one but it gives the name of an age – the several decades after the Civil War.) “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (The two adventures are his masterpieces.) “Life on Mississippi” Social Critic Mark Twain is an idealist who believed freedom, justice and brotherhood of man. He wrote lots of passages criticizing the racial discrimination towards Chinese in America and he also wrote a passage condemning the unfair invasion of China in 1900. Our Selection The Gilded Age The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn A. Setting: around 1850s, before the Civil War; a small town near the Mississippi B. Plot: Read page 372. C. theme: humanism will finally win D. Notice: this novel was the first famous novel about growing up and showing the contradictions between adults’ world and teenagers’ world E. The novel used vivid details from actual life successfully. F. Special point of view: serious social problems discussed through the narration of a little illiterate boy E. Colloquial s