2019版高考英语一轮复习（浙江用B版）：专题十二 词义推断阅读.ppt

and prejudice into tales that were on the surface about something else entirely.He drew his readers into the argument by drawing them into the story. Again and again,in the postwar years,Twain seemed forced to deal with the challenge of race.Con-sider the most controversial,at least today,of Twains novels,Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.Only a few books have been kicked off the shelves as often as Huckleberry Finn,Twains most widely read tale.Once upon a time,people hated the book because it struck them as rude.Twain himself wrote that those who banned the book considered the novel “trash and suitable only for the slums(贫民窟).”More recently the book has been attacked because of the character Jim,the escaped slave,and many occurences of the word nigger.(The term Nigger Jim,for which the novel is often severely criticized,never appears in it.) But the attacks were and are silly—and miss the point.The novel is strongly anti-slavery.Jims search through the slave states for the family from whom he has been forcibly parted is heroic.As J.Chadwick has pointed out,the character of Jim was a first in American fiction—a recognition that the slave had two personalities,“the voice of survival within a white slave culture and the voice of the individual:Jim,the father and the man.” There is much more.Twains mystery novel Pudd nhead Wilson stood as a challenge to the racial beliefs of even many of the liberals of his day.Written at a time when the accepted wisdom held Negroes to be inferior(低等的)to whites,especially in intelligence,Twains tale centered in part around two babies switched at birth.A slave gave birth to her masters baby and,for fear that the child should be sold South,switched him for the masters baby by his wife.The slaves light-skinned child was taken to be white and grew up with both the attitudes and the education of the slave-holding class.The masters wifes baby was taken for black and grew up with the attitudes and intonations of the slave. The