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Symbolism in The Scarlet Letter (the changes meaning of A) 1. adultery or adulteress (a token of shame) 2. able: a sign of Hester’s “ability” (through her honesty, intelligence, hard working and genuine morality, she gradually won a moral victory over her sin.) 3. angel: appears in the sky 4.adamic: Adam 5. the rising America American Realism(1865 Civil War- 1918 World War I) Industrialism over agrarianism Golden Age Gilded Age Local Color、Psychological Realism、Naturalism Local Colorists --H.B. Stowe (1811-1896)斯托  Uncle Tom’s Cabin ----“A book written by a little woman started a great war. ”(Abraham Lincoln) “Mother of American Realism” Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835-1910) Works: The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,加拉维拉县有名的跳蛙 1865 The Gilded Age,镀金时代 1873 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,汤姆·索耶历险记 1876 The Prince and the Pauper,王子与贫儿 1882 Life on the Mississippi, 1883 The Innocents Abroad 傻瓜出国记 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,1884 The Tragedy of Puddnhead Wilson,1893 “all modern American Literature comes”---- Hemingway The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,汤姆·索耶历险记 1876 汤姆幼年丧母，由姨妈收养。聪明顽皮的汤姆受不了姨妈和学校老师的管束，常常逃学闯祸。一天深夜，他与好朋友哈克贝里·芬到墓地玩耍，无意中目睹了一起凶杀案的发生。因为害怕被凶手发现他们知道这件事，汤姆、哈克贝里带着另一个小伙伴一起逃到一座荒岛上做起了“海盗”，弄得家里以为他们被淹死了，结果他们却出现在了自己的“葬礼”上。经过激烈的思想斗争，汤姆终于勇敢地站出来，指证了凶手。不久之后，在一次野餐活动中，他与他心爱的姑娘贝姬在一个岩洞里迷了路，整整三天三夜饥寒交迫，面临着死亡的威胁。后来终于成功脱险，和好友哈克一起找到了凶手埋藏的宝藏。 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》1884 故事的主人公是在《汤姆·索亚历险记》中就跟大家见面的哈克贝利·费恩。哈克贝利是一个聪明、善良、勇敢的白人少年。他为了追求自由的生活，逃亡到密西西比河上。在逃亡途中，他遇到了黑奴吉姆。吉姆是一个勤劳朴实、热情诚实、忠心耿耿的黑奴，他为了逃脱被主人再次卖掉的命运，从主人家中出逃。两个人历经种种奇遇。 Characteristics of major works Short story/novel/social criticism/one’s childhood experience can be transformed into classic novels. Sum up the tradition of western humor and frontier realism Writes about his people and his own life/he loves them and at the same time depicts the dark side of society bitterly. His greatest achievement on literature was his use of dialects and his portrayal of the local. American Natural