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ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINNBY: MARK TWAIN
Background InformationSlide2
What is satire?Satire is the use of
____________ or
sarcasm to denounce or make fun of a specific idea, object, concept, or person.
Mark Twain uses satire to:
show the wrong in a very serious problem,
_________________
point out flaws in human nature
point
out social
“
ills
” of the pre-Civil War time frameSlide3
Who is Mark Twain?Mark Twain's real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
Before becoming a writer, he held a variety of odd jobs including piloting a
_________________ up
and down the Mississippi River.
He was licensed as a steamboat pilot in 1859 and worked on the river until fighting there during the Civil War ended traffic traveling from north to south.
His experiences along the
____________ helped
him come up with his pen name, Mark Twain.Slide4
How did Twain get his pseudonym?
In 1863, when Clemens was 27, he wrote a humorous travel story and decided to sign his name "Mark Twain." This name comes from something shouted by crewmen on a boat.
To test the depth of the water, a crewman shouts "mark twain!" The crewman is calling for two fathoms, or a depth of 12 feet, which is barely enough for a boat to navigate safely.
"Twain" is an
_____________________ of
saying "two" and a fathom is six feet.
"Mark Twain" is a "pen name" in the same way that many people in show business use a "stage name." Slide5
What is the setting of Huck Finn?
Time: Before the
_________________;
roughly 1835–1845; Twain said the novel was set forty to fifty years before the time of its publication
Place: The
__________________ town
of St. Petersburg, Missouri; various locations along the river through ArkansasSlide6
What is a major focus of Huck Finn?
Slavery
_____________ the
moral fabric of life
Struggle against societies
’
standards and expectations
Intellectual and
_______________ education
Hypocrisy of
“
civilized society
”Slide7
What elements are necessary in an American Novel (1851-1875)?
1. No geographic limitations
2.
_________________________:
immigrants in large numbers were arriving to the United States
3. Growth of industrialization: division of north and south; north becomes industrialized, south remains agricultural. Slide8
What was Twain’s original intention in writing Huck Finn
?
He wanted to share his philosophy of society and culture at the present time.
Twain makes a social commentary about the
____________________________ of
society, as well as how people were treating each other unjustly.
As a result, he depicts the issue of slavery very accurately; he creates characters who
represent
the presiding attitudes of the time.
This means you will see demeaning/cruel language and horrible treatment of the slave characters, particularly Jim. This is to shed light on just how poorly slaves were treated.
Twain was convinced that slavery is
___________________________.Slide9
Why does the main character’s name seem out of place?
A
“
huckleberry
”
is a wild, dark blue berry which resembles the blueberry.
Huckleberries have hard seeds in the center and a
_________________ than
the blueberry
Usually found in the eastern and northern parts of the United StatesSlide10
Dialect in Huck Finn
Representing the living speech of Twain
’
s day, the following examples of various
____________ that
typify a
__________________ of
language found in the areas along the Mississippi River.
Missouri slave:
Jim
“
Goodness gracious, is
dat
you, Huck? En you
ain
’
dead-you
ain
’
t
drownded
-you
’
s back
ag
’
in? It
’
s too good for true, honey, it
’
s too good for true.
Lemme
look at you
chile
,
lemme
feel o
’
you. No, you
ain
’
dead! you
’
s back
ag
’
in,
‘
live en
soun
’
,
jis
de same ole Huck-de same ole Huck, thanks to goodness!
”
Extremist form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect:
Arkansas Gossips (Sister Hotchkiss)
“
Look at that-air grindstone, s
’
I; want to tell me
’
t any
cretur
‘
t
’
s in his right mind
’
s a-
goin
’
to scrabble all them crazy things onto a grindstone? s
’
I.
”
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Dialect contOrdinary
_______________ :
Huck
“
My folks was living in Pike County, in Missouri, where I was born, and they all died off but me and pa and my brother Ike.
”
Modified
“
Pike County
”
:
Thief on the Sir Walter Scott, Jake Packard
“
I
’
m unfavorable to
killin
’
a man as long as you can
git
aroun
’
it, it
ain
’
t good sense, it
ain
’
t good morals.
Ain
’
t I right?
”
Modified
“
Pike County
”
:
King
“
Well, I
’
d ben a-
runnin
’
a little
temperence
revival
thar
‘
bout a week . . . and business a-
growin
’
all the time, when somehow or another a little report got around last night that I had a way of
puttin
’
in my time with a private jug on the sly.
”
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Dialect cont.Modified “
Pike County
”
:
Bricksville
Loafers
“
Gimme
a chaw
‘
v
tobacker
, Hank.
”
“
Cain
’
t; I
hain
’
t got but one chaw left. Ask Bill.
”
Modified
“
Pike County
”
:
Aunt Sally and Uncle Silas Phelps
“
Good-ness gracious!
”
she says,
“
what in the world can have become of him?
”
“
I can
’
t imagine,
”
says the old gentleman;
“
and I must say it makes me dreadful uneasy.
”