Second, his life experience furnished him with a wide knowledge of humanity, as well as with the perfect grasp of local customs and speech, which Mark Twain manifested so well in his writing. His works mirror the real society of his time.
高级英语（第三版）第一册第六课 Mark Train
Teaching Aims
1) To acquaint students with the major events in the history of USA.
2) To acquaint students with the life and writing of Mark Twain.
3) To acquaint students with the writing of biography.
4) To help students to appreciate the rich rhetorical devices in the text
Mirror of America
“Mirror ” is a piece of glass or other shinny/polished surface that reflects images. Here, it is a metaphor.
• As a writer, he grew up with America, moved along with America, from innocence to experience.
Mark Twain: Samuel Langhorne Clemens
(1835--1910). two fathoms deep.
Part One
. Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn's idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer's endless summer of freedom and
His Life
______ Historic Events of USA
Tramp printer
River pilot --
Prosperous Mississippi River
Transcontinental Railroads
Guerrilla –
The Civil War
Prospector --
Part I (Para.1): It serves as an introduction of the whole text.
Part II(Para2-19): It provides his life his success and comments on his works.
Part III (Para.20-22): It devotes to his personal tragedy.
Part One
Question: How was Mark Twain introduced?
-- his outstanding achievements as a writer who created two immortal characters -- his multi-sided personality: adventurous, patriotic, romantic, humorist, cynical, bitter, sad.
made in two senses.
First, Mark Twain’s exciting, adventuresome life stories themselves mirror a part of American history, and the life of ordinary American people.
• Mark Twain is a part of America. His personal success and failure were those of America.
• As a man, he grew up with America as a country (a young country)
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Reporter --
Westward Expansion
Correspondent -- Europe, the Holy Land
Writer
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Tom Sawyer’s innocence
Huck Finn’s experience
Mark Twain —Mirror of America
It means a faithful representation or description of something (the country).
• • Why does the author say that Mark Twain is the
mirror of America?
The assertion that Mark Twain is the mirror of America is
adventure. In-deed, this nation's best-loved author was
every bit as adventurous, patriotic, romantic, and humorous as anyone has ever imagined. I found another Twain as well – one who grew cynical, bitter, saddened by the profound personal tragedies life dealt him, a man who became obsessed with the frailties of the human race, who saw clearly ahead a black wall of night.