Encourages Huck to run risk to save erstand
Huck
and recognize Jim as an equal
Jim
human being
Jim does his best to look after Huck
Conclusion
———Ernest Hemingway
• 1850
Background
• Mississippi river
• Full of violence
Plot overview
Widow Douglas adopted by
kidnap
Huck’s father
sister
Miss Watson
Huckleberry friend Finn
Introduction
•
All
modern
American
literature
comes from one book by
Mark Twain called
Huckleberry Finn. ...
There was nothing before.
There has been nothing
as good since.
Huckleberry Finn & Jim
Huckleberry Finn
•Naive and naughty •Desiring to be free •Brave •Energetic and curious •Clever and intelligent
Jim
•Longing for freedom and daring to change his destiny •Brave and selfless •Kindhearted •Giving lots of protections and concerns to friend
Question 2
Accept the status or pursue the freedom, which one do you prefer?
Thank You!
Major works
• The Million Pound Note • Roughing It (1872) • The Gilded Age (1873) • Life on the Mississippi(1883) • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Couru
Miss Watson
Huckleberry friend Finn
Tom
slave
Jim
Judith Loftus The Grangerfords The duck and the king Aunt Sally and Uncle Silas Phelps …
Character analysis
Love and equality help white boy Huck and black salve Jim broke through racial problem and make the greatest friendship.
Discussion
Question 1
Do you think friendship is beyond age and social states ?
(1889) • Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894) • The Man That Corrupted Haddleyburry （1900）
Two best known novels
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 –1910)
• artistic, sharp weapon
• Famous for humor and satire
• greatest American humorist of his age
• the father of American literature
Themes
How a white and a black could be friends?
Love
Urges Huck not to tell the secret that Jim is a runaway slave.
Ties Huck to Jim at all the dangerous moments in the adventures.
Tom
slave
Jim
Judith Loftus The Grangerfords The duck and the king Aunt Sally and Uncle Silas Phelps …
Widow Douglas adopted by
sister
kidna p
Huck’s father
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Structure
• Author • Introduction • Background • Plot overview • Character analysis • Themes • Discussion
Mark Twain