哈克贝利费恩历险记,英文介绍

Background • 1850 • Mississippi river
• Full of violence
Plot overview
adopted by sister
kidnap
friend
slave
adopted by sister
kidna p
friend
slave
Character analysis
Major works
• • • • • The Million Pound Note Roughing It (1872) The Gilded Age (1873) Life on the Mississippi(1883) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Couru (1889) • Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894) • The Man That Corrupted
Themes
How a white and a black could be friends?
Love
Urges Huck not to tell the secret that Jim is a runaway slave. Ties Huck to Jim at all the dangerous moments in the adventures. Encourages Huck to run risk to save Jim.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Structure
• • • • • • • Author Introduction Background Plot overview Character analysis Themes Discussion
Mark Twain
• Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 –1910) • artistic, sharp weapon • Famous for humor and satire • greatest American humorist of his age • the father of American
Two best known novels
• The Adventures oΒιβλιοθήκη Baidu Tom Sawyer
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Introduction
• All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. ... There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since. ———Ernest Hemingway
Thank You!
Discussion
Question 1
Do you think friendship is beyond age and social states ?
Question 2
Accept the status or pursue the freedom, which one do you prefer?
Huckleberry Finn & Jim
Huckleberry Finn
•Naive and naughty •Desiring to be free •Brave •Energetic and curious •Clever and intelligent
Jim
•Longing for freedom and daring to change his destiny •Brave and selfless •Kindhearted •Giving lots of protections and concerns to friend
Equality
Huck
Understand and recognize Jim as an equal human being
Jim
Jim does his best to look after Huck
Conclusion
Love and equality help white boy Huck and black salve Jim broke through racial problem and make the greatest friendship.