Mark Twain's Brief Biography+ the summary of the novel" The adventure of Tom Sawyer"

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2. Contents
I. THE STORY OF MARK TWAIN’S LIFE
1. Quick facts
2. Life
2.1. Early Life
2.2. Heading out west _ Finding gold
2.3. Marriage to Olivia Langdon
2.4. Later Work
2.5. Personal struggles
II. HIS STYLE
1. His style
2. His denotation to The American literature
3. His writing
III. THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
1. Introduction
2. Summary
3. The meaning
3.1. The progressive meaning.
3.2. The humanity meaning
CONCLUSION

3. THE STORY OF MARK TWAIN’S LIFE
the father of
American
literature

4. 1. Quick facts
NAME FULL
NAME
BIRTH DATE DEATH DATE BEST WORKS
EVER
Mark
Twain
Samuel
Langhorne
Clemens
November 30,
1835
In Florida,
Missouri
April 21, 1910
Redding,
Connecticut
- The adventure
of Tom Sawyer
(1876)
- The adventure
of Huckleberry
Finn (1884)

6. 2.1 EARLY LIFE
The 6th child of John and Jane Clemens
Father: a lawyer in Missouri
Mother: a warm- hearted homemaker
When he was 4, the Clemens ,moved to
Hannibal. He lived there from 4 to 17
Economic struggles

7. Hannibal
• Existed slavery
• Generous
landscape
• Commonplace
of violence

8. Twain’s Personality
Mischievous boy
Like adventuring
Like reading books
=> prototype of his character: Tom Sawyer

9. 1st struggle
• When he was 11, his father died
=> He leaf school and got many jobs in
order to help family: printer, occasional
writer and editor
• The print shop and newspaper provided
him with education, literature training and
travelling
=> TRAVEL WRITER

10. • 21 years old: learned to pilot a steamboat on
Mississippi
• 23 years old: plying the shoals and channels
• 25 years old: his service was cut short in 1861
because of Civil War
• June 1861, joined the Confederate Army but
serving for only a few weeks
ÞWhere would he find his future?
ÞHis answer: the great American West.

11. 2.2 Heading out West-Finding gold
• July 1861: went to Nevada and California and
prospected for silver and gold.
• After that, he was out of cash and need of a job.
• He went to work as a reporter for the Virginia City
Territorial Enterprise.
• He churned out new stories and sketches, and
along this way, adopted the penname
“Mark Twain”.
• At 34: become one of the
most famous writers in America.

12. 2.3 Marriage to Olivia Langdon
• February 1870, Twain married 24-
year-old Olivia Langdon, the daughter
of a rich New York coal merchant.
• The couple settled in Buffalo and later
had 4 children.

13. 2.4 Later work
• In 1889: published A Connecticut Yankee In
King Arthur’s Court, a science-fiction/
historical novel about ancient
England.
• In 1894:wrote The Tragedy of Pudd’n head
Wilson
• His unfinished take
The Chronicle of Young Satan
has fervent admirers today.

14. 2.5 Personal Struggles
• Early marriage, he and Livy had lost their
Toddler son Langdon to diphtheria( Bệnh
bạch hầu)
• In 1896, his daughter, Susy, died at the
age of 24 of spinal meningitis( Viêm màng
não)
• His youngest daughter, Jean,
died of a heart attack
• In 1904, Livy died after
a long illness

15. II. His writing
great
works
1.His style
2.Denotation to the
American
literature
3.His work

16. 1. His style
1. Realism
• He described the every daily life with normal
people
•not exaggerate
•His characters speak an American vernacular

17. 2. Optimism:
• happy or open ending with a hope for a
better and brighter future
• live with their warm- hearted
• In “The adventure of Tom Sawyer”, Tom
saw everything through black eyes(his
punishment, the crimes…), but the readers
still see the optimism of the characters and
also of the writer

18. 3. Humorous
• Language is used diversified and usefully
• Twain had a great influence on American
politics and society
4. Simplicity
• Simple language to describe the real life
• The nature in his homeland

19. 2. His denotation to The American
literature
• The works of Mark Twain- “quintessential American”
• “He was the USA you?
No, I'm not American.
I am America.”
• The 1930s, Hemingway once said: "The whole modern
American literature comes from one book called
Huckleberry Finn."

20. 3. His writing
THERE ARE 23 WORKS OF MARK TWAIN
•The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other
Sketches (1867)
•Innocents Abroad (Những người Innocent đi du lịch, 1869)
•The Gilded Age (Thời kỳ vàng son, 1873).
•The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
(Những cuộc phiêu lưu của Tom Sawyer , 1876)
•A Tramp Abroad (Đi nước ngoài , 1880)
•The Prince and the Pauper
(Ông hoàng và gã ăn xin, 1882)
•Life on the Mississippi
(Đời sống trên dòng sông Mississippi, 1883)

21. • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Những cuộc phiêu lưu của
Huckleberry Finn, 1884)
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Một người Hoa Kỳ
bang Connecticot trong triều đình vua Arthur, 1889)
• The Person sitting in the Darkness (Người ngồi trong bóng tối,
1901)
• King Leopold's Soliloquy (Độc thoại của vua Leopold, 1905)
• The American Claimant (Người Mỹ đòi quyền lợi, 1892)
• The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (Tấm bi kịch của Pudd'nhead
Wilson, 1894)
• Following the Equator (Sau đường xích đạo, 1897)
• The Man that Corrupted Hadleburg
(Kẻ tham nhũng tại Hadleburg, 1899)
• The Mysterious Stranger
(Người khách lạ huyền bí, 1916)

22. "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
- published in 1884.
- Content: colorful description of people
and places along the Mississippi River.
Set in a Southern antebellum society that
had ceased to exist about twenty years
before the work was published.
- is an often scathing satire on
entrenched attitudes,
particularly racism.

23. III. THE ADVENTURES OF TOM
SAWYER

24. 1. Introduction
• Twain based The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer largely on his personal memories of
growing up in Hannibal in the 1840s.
• Every figure in the novel comes from the
young Twain’s village experience.
• One of America's best-loved tales, Tom
Sawyer has a double appeal.

25. Some notes:
• FULL TITLE: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• TYPE OF WORK: Novel
• GENRE: Concerned with Tom’s personal growth and
quest for identity, The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer incorporates several different genres
• LANGUAGE: English
• TIME AND PLACE WRITTEN: 1874–1875; Hartford,
Connecticut
• DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION:
appeared in England in June 1876,
and six months later in the United States

26. • POINT OF VIEW: The narrator narrates in the third person,
with a special insight into the workings of the boyish heart
and mind.
• TONE: Satirical and nostalgic
• TENSE: Past
• SETTING (TIME): Not specified, but probably around 1845
• SETTING (PLACE): The fictional town of St. Petersburg,
Missouri (which resembles Twain’s hometown of Hannibal)
• THEMES: Moral and social maturation; society’s hypocrisy;
freedom through social exclusion; superstition in an
uncertain world
• MOTIFS: Crime; trading; the circus
“showing off”

27. 2. Summary
• The main stories in the novel are the following 4
small things:
1. Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher's relationship
2. The episode on Jackson's Island and its results.
3. The Murder Plot
4. The search and discovery of buried and treasure

28. Summary
1. Tom lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid. He
dirties his clothes in a fight and is whitewash the fence as
punishment. He cleverly persuades his friends to trade him small
treasures for the privilege of doing his work.
2. Then, he falls in love with Becky Thatcher. Their romance
collapses when she learns Tom has been "engaged" previously
to Amy Lawrence.

29. 3. Shortly after Becky shuns him, he accompanies
Huckleberry Finn to the graveyard at night, where
they witness Injun murders Dr. Robinson.
4. Tom, Huck, and Joe Harper run away to an
island. While enjoying their newfound freedom, the
boys become aware that the community is sounding
the river for their bodies.They return home.

30. • 5. Back in school, Tom gets himself back in
Becky's favor. Tom points out the real murder
Injun Joe but he flees the courtroom through a
window.
• 6. Summer arrives, Tom and Huck go hunting
for buried treasure in a haunted house. They
see Injun Joe disguised as a deaf-mute
Spaniard; Injun Joe and his
companion plan to bury
some stolen treasure of their own

31. • 7. Injun Joe find a buried box of gold. They see
Tom and Huck’s tools, they become suspicious that
someone is sharing their hiding place and carry the
gold off.
• 8. Huck follows Injun Joe and sees he and his
father escape with a box. He follows and overhears
their plans to attack the Widow Douglas. By running
to fetch help, Huck prevents the crime. Meanwhile,
Tom goes on a picnic to McDougal’s Cave.

32. • 9. Tom and Becky get lost in the cave, and their
absence is not discovered until the following
morning.
• 10. While looking for a way out of the cave, he
happens upon Injun Joe, who is using the cave
as a hideout. Eventually, Tom finds a way out.
The town celebrates, and Becky’s father, Judge
Thatcher, locks up the cave. Injun Joe, trapped
inside, starves to death.

33. 3. The meaning