By Mark Twain Meet Mark Twain I was born on the 30 th of November 1835 in the almost invisible village of Florida Monroe County Missouri the village contained a hundred people and I increased the population by 1 percent It is more than many of the best men in history could have done ID: 278774
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
By Mark TwainSlide2
Meet Mark Twain
“I was born on the 30
th
of November, 1835, in the almost invisible village of Florida, Monroe County, Missouri… the village contained a hundred people and I increased the population by 1 percent. It is more than many of the best men in history could have done for a town.”– The Autobiography of Mark Twain
Mark Twain, born
Samuel Clemens
was a self-made man. Born on the Missouri frontier, he learned several trades, traveled widely, and became a larger-than-life writer,
lecturer
, and a symbol of America.
His
childhood town,
Hannibal MO
, and
people in it, served as
inspiration
his fictional settings and characters.Slide3
Twain’s Aspirations
At the age of 17 he left Hannibal to work as a
printer’s assistant.
When he was 21 he returned to the Mississippi River to train as a pilot he realized this life-long dream only to have it cut short by the start of the Civil War
in 1861.
After a two-week stint in the
Confederate Army, Clemens joined his brother in Carson City where he began writing humorous sketches and tall tales for the local newspaper. This is where he devised his pseudonym,_Mark Twain, a riverboating term meaning: “two fathoms or 12 ft deep.”Slide4
Literary Success
Clemens next worked as a miner near San Francisco, where he heard a tall tale that he later published as “The Celebrated
Jumping Frog of
Calaveras County”– it was an instant success.
He later traveled
to_
Hawaii Europe, and the Middle-East where he gained experiences that would evolve into his next literary success: The Innocents_ AbroadIn 1870, he met and married Olivia Langdon, settled down in Hartford Connecticut, and worked as a successful lecturer, telling humorous stories and reading from his books.
Other famous works include:
Roughing it, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi, The Prince and the Pauper
and countless short stories.
His death in
1910
was met with great sorrow around the world. Slide5
Notice
“PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.”
BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR,
Per G.G., Chief of Ordnance. Slide6
Explanatory
IN this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the
extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary "Pike County" dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shadings have not been done in a haphazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with these several forms of speech. I make this explanation for the reason that without it many readers would suppose that all these characters were trying to talk alike and not succeeding.
THE AUTHOR. Slide7
Intro to Huck Finn
Published i
n1885
In some ways, Huck Finn is a sequel to Tom Sawyer. Huck was an important member of Tom’s gang and Jim appeared as well. Both novels take place in the fictional town of St. Petersburg - modeled after Twain’s hometown of Hannibal. However,
Huck Finn’s
themes
go much deeper than just the good times of the “boy’s book”, Tom Sawyer. Slide8
Satire of
Huck Finn
When using satire, an author employs humor and sarcasm to expose serious flaws about society, government, or ways of thinking.
The purpose of satire is to ignite
change.
The
villages along the Mississippi mirrored American society as a whole in the 1880’s. The author, through satire, exposes people’sflaws and their often, senseless
prejudices
owards
others.
Twain is especially bitter about the effects of
slavery
the morality of American
peopleSlide9
Purpose
Huckleberry Finn
can be seen as hopeful.
The novel shows that:
people can make the right decisions and defy injustice
an individual’s morals can lead them to reject what is wrong in society sound personal values can overcome evilHuckleberry Finn revolves around the conflict between “a sound heart and a deformed conscience.”-- TwainSlide10
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