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ContentsI. THE STORY OF MARK TWAIN’S LIFE

1. Quick facts

2. Life

2.1. Early Life

2.2. Heading out west _ Finding gold

2.3. Marriage to Olivia Langdon

2.4. Later Work

2.5. Personal struggles

II. HIS STYLE

1. His style

2. His denotation to The American literature

3. His writing

III. THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER

1. Introduction

2. Summary

3. The meaning

3.1. The progressive meaning.

3.2. The humanity meaning

CONCLUSION

THE STORY OF MARK TWAIN’S LIFE

the father of American literature

1. Quick facts

NAMEFULL

NAME

BIRTH DATE DEATH DATE BEST WORKS EVER

Mark

Twain

Samuel

Langhorne

Clemens

 

November 30,

1835

In Florida,

Missouri

April 21, 1910

Redding,

Connecticut

- The adventure

of Tom Sawyer

(1876)

- The adventure

of Huckleberry

Finn (1884)

2.1 EARLY LIFE

The 6th child of John and Jane ClemensFather: a lawyer in MissouriMother: a warm- hearted homemakerWhen he was 4, the Clemens ,moved to

Hannibal. He lived there from 4 to 17Economic struggles

Hannibal

• Existed slavery

• Generous landscape

• Commonplace

of violence

Twain’s Personality

Mischievous boyLike adventuring Like reading books

=> prototype of his character: Tom Sawyer

1st struggle

• When he was 11, his father died

=> He leaf school and got many jobs in order to help family: printer, occasional writer and editor

• The print shop and newspaper provided him with education, literature training and travelling

=> TRAVEL WRITER

• 21 years old: learned to pilot a steamboat on Mississippi

• 23 years old: plying the shoals and channels• 25 years old: his service was cut short in 1861

because of Civil War• June 1861, joined the Confederate Army but

serving for only a few weeks Where would he find his future? His answer: the great American West.

2.2 Heading out West-Finding gold• July 1861: went to Nevada and California and

prospected for silver and gold. • After that, he was out of cash and need of a job.• He went to work as a reporter for the Virginia City

Territorial Enterprise.• He churned out new stories and sketches, and

along this way, adopted the penname

“Mark Twain”.• At 34: become one of the

most famous writers in America.

2.3 Marriage to Olivia Langdon

• February 1870, Twain married 24-year-old Olivia Langdon, the daughter of a rich New York coal merchant.

• The couple settled in Buffalo and later had 4 children.

2.4 Later work• In 1889: published A Connecticut Yankee In

King Arthur’s Court, a science-fiction/historical novel about ancient England.

• In 1894:wrote The Tragedy of Pudd’n head Wilson

• His unfinished take

The Chronicle of Young Satan

has fervent admirers today.

2.5 Personal Struggles• Early marriage, he and Livy had lost their

Toddler son Langdon to diphtheria( Bệnh bạch hầu)

• In 1896, his daughter, Susy, died at the age of 24 of spinal meningitis( Viêm màng não)

• His youngest daughter, Jean,

died of a heart attack

• In 1904, Livy died after

a long illness

II. His writing

great works

1.His style2.Denotation to the

American literature

3.His work

1. His style1. Realism

• He described the every daily life with normal people

•not exaggerate

•His characters speak an American vernacular

2. Optimism:

• happy or open ending with a hope for a better and brighter future

• live with their warm- hearted

• In “The adventure of Tom Sawyer”, Tom saw everything through black eyes(his punishment, the crimes…), but the readers still see the optimism of the characters and also of the writer

3. Humorous

• Language is used diversified and usefully

• Twain had a great influence on American politics and society

4. Simplicity

• Simple language to describe the real life

• The nature in his homeland

2. His denotation to The American literature

• The works of Mark Twain- “quintessential American”• “He was the USA you?

No, I'm not American.

I am America.”• The 1930s, Hemingway once said: "The whole modern

American literature comes from one book called Huckleberry Finn."

3. His writingTHERE ARE 23 WORKS OF MARK TWAIN •The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches (1867)

•Innocents Abroad (Những người Innocent đi du lịch, 1869)

•The Gilded Age (Thời kỳ vàng son, 1873).

•The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

(Những cuộc phiêu lưu của Tom Sawyer , 1876)

•A Tramp Abroad (Đi nước ngoài , 1880)

•The Prince and the Pauper

(Ông hoàng và gã ăn xin, 1882)

•Life on the Mississippi

(Đời sống trên dòng sông Mississippi, 1883)

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Những cuộc phiêu lưu của Huckleberry Finn, 1884)

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Một người Hoa Kỳ bang Connecticot trong triều đình vua Arthur, 1889)

• The Person sitting in the Darkness (Người ngồi trong bóng tối, 1901)

• King Leopold's Soliloquy (Độc thoại của vua Leopold, 1905)

• The American Claimant (Người Mỹ đòi quyền lợi, 1892)

• The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (Tấm bi kịch của Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894)

• Following the Equator (Sau đường xích đạo, 1897)

• The Man that Corrupted Hadleburg

(Kẻ tham nhũng tại Hadleburg, 1899)

• The Mysterious Stranger

(Người khách lạ huyền bí, 1916)

"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"- published in 1884.

- Content: colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Set in a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about twenty years before the work was published.

- is an often scathing satire on

entrenched attitudes,

particularly racism.

III. THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER

1. Introduction• Twain based The Adventures of Tom

Sawyer largely on his personal memories of growing up in Hannibal in the 1840s.

• Every figure in the novel comes from the young Twain’s village experience.

• One of America's best-loved tales, Tom Sawyer has a double appeal.

Some notes:

• FULL TITLE:  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer• TYPE OF WORK: Novel• GENRE:  Concerned with Tom’s personal growth and

quest for identity, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer incorporates several different genres

• LANGUAGE:  English• TIME AND PLACE WRITTEN:  1874–1875; Hartford,

Connecticut• DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION: 

appeared in England in June 1876,

and six months later in the United States

• POINT OF VIEW: The narrator narrates in the third person, with a special insight into the workings of the boyish heart and mind.

• TONE: Satirical and nostalgic• TENSE: Past• SETTING (TIME): Not specified, but probably around 1845• SETTING (PLACE): The fictional town of St. Petersburg,

Missouri (which resembles Twain’s hometown of Hannibal)• THEMES: Moral and social maturation; society’s hypocrisy;

freedom through social exclusion; superstition in an uncertain world

• MOTIFS: Crime; trading; the circus

“showing off”

2. Summary

• The main stories in the novel are the following 4 small things:

1.Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher's relationship

2. The episode on Jackson's Island and its results.

3.The Murder Plot4.The search and discovery of buried and

treasure

Summary1. Tom lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid. He dirties his clothes in a fight and is whitewash the fence as punishment. He cleverly persuades his friends to trade him small treasures for the privilege of doing his work.

2. Then, he falls in love with Becky Thatcher. Their romance collapses when she learns Tom has been "engaged" previously to Amy Lawrence.

3. Shortly after Becky shuns him, he accompanies Huckleberry Finn to the graveyard at night, where they witness Injun murders Dr. Robinson.

4. Tom, Huck, and Joe Harper run away to an island. While enjoying their newfound freedom, the boys become aware that the community is sounding the river for their bodies.They return home.

• 5. Back in school, Tom gets himself back in Becky's favor. Tom points out the real murder Injun Joe but he flees the courtroom through a window.

• 6. Summer arrives, Tom and Huck go hunting for buried treasure in a haunted house. They see Injun Joe disguised as a deaf-mute Spaniard; Injun Joe and his

companion plan to bury

some stolen treasure of their own

• 7. Injun Joe find a buried box of gold. They see Tom and Huck’s tools, they become suspicious that someone is sharing their hiding place and carry the gold off.

• 8. Huck follows Injun Joe and sees he and his father escape with a box. He follows and overhears their plans to attack the Widow Douglas. By running to fetch help, Huck prevents the crime. Meanwhile, Tom goes on a picnic to McDougal’s Cave.

• 9. Tom and Becky get lost in the cave, and their absence is not discovered until the following morning.

• 10. While looking for a way out of the cave, he happens upon Injun Joe, who is using the cave as a hideout. Eventually, Tom finds a way out. The town celebrates, and Becky’s father, Judge Thatcher, locks up the cave. Injun Joe, trapped inside, starves to death.

3. The meaning