Part One —Teaching Objectives

I. Comprehension of the text

II. Mastery of important language points

III. Enlargement of the vocabulary

IV. Rhetorical devices

V. the writing of biology

Part Two Video watching

Part Three—Background Information

Ⅰ. Mark Twain’s life and the historic events of U.S.A.

Ⅱ. Mark Twain’s writing style

Ⅲ. An overall Estimation of his characters

IV His works

V Contribution to the world

1. What is Mark Twain’s real name?

2. What is Mark Twain dubbed as?

Key:

1. Mark Twain is the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens.

2. “The Lincoln of American Literature”.

Analyze Mark Twain’s writing styles.

Key:

The language used in Twain’s books is colloquial, concrete and direct in effect, and his sentence structures are simple, even ungrammatical, which is typical of the spoken language. And Twain skillfully used the colloquialism to cast his protagonists in their everyday life. A Huck, speaking vernacular, running away from civilization for his freedom, is vividly brought to life.

Twain is also known as a local colorist. He successfully used local color and historical settings to illustrate and shed light on the contemporary society. The rich material of his boyhood experience on the Mississippi valley and the West becomes his major theme. Huck’s Mississippi River, originally as escape from what may now seem some of the simpler strictures of society, continues to serve the American psyche as an imaginative alternative to modern civilization. Twain, who knew the river intimately, uses it here both realistically and symbolically. The shape given to it by the course of the raft’s journey down the Mississippi as Huck and Jim seeks their different kinds of freedom.

论文题目：马克 · 吐温的中国观

作者：崔丽芳

摘要：马克 · 吐温是在19世纪60年代至20世纪初这样一个特定的背景下通过直接或间接的媒介来接触中国的，他的人道主义立场和社会责任感使他的中国观较之前人甚至同时代人有了较大的进步。这表现在他早期作品中对旅美华工的同情和后期作品中对饱受列强凌辱的中华民族的关注。但是，囿于历史文化语境和社会心理的需求，吐温笔下的中国形象仍不可避免地染上了作家的好奇、偏见、轻视、排斥等心理色彩。本文旨在对吐温作品的华人形象和中国题材进行重新梳理，并进一步探究作家的中国观及其形成的背景因素。