MarkTwain工作生活经历介绍教学教材.ppt

Mark Twain;Mark Twain’s life;He was brought up in the small town on the Mississippi River. He was twelve when his father died and he had to leave school. He was successively a printer’s apprentice, a tramp流浪者 printer, a silver miner, a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi, and a frontier journalist in Nevada and California. His colorful experience gave his resource of his writing and a wide knowledge of humanity. ;In American history, the Gilded Age refers to major growth in population in the United States and extravagant displays of wealth and excess of Americas upper-class during the post-Civil War and post-Reconstruction era, in the late 19th century (1870-1890). ;His boyhood experience furnished him with ample material for fiction. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) was an immediate success as “a boy’s book”. Its sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) became his masterwork. This book was first considered adult fiction, which painted a picture of Mississippi frontier life. Ernest Hemingway had such a remark---“all modern American literature comes”. ;He set out world tour, traveling in France and Italy. His experiences were recorded in 1869 in The Innocents Abroad傻子出国记, which gained him wide popularity, and poked fun at取笑、戏弄 both American and European prejudices and manners. He criticized the hypocrisy and corruption as well as the American’s shallowness and innocence using humorous and wit tone. ;His tragic life: The death of his wife in 1904 in Florence and his second daughter darkened the author‘s later years. Because of Twain’s personal tragedy and bankruptcy of finance, his writing shift from the humorous style into satirical one. Twain used his utmost effort to criticize the injustice of society, the absurdness of human. His later work---The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg 《败坏了哈德莱堡的人》(1900) was filled with pessimistic and cynical tone.;His works;Contributions;Local Color;Questions;1. Mark Twains real name is ________.;2. Mark Twains first short s