Mark Twain was an American author born in 1835 in Missouri. He had experiences working as a steamboat pilot and journalist that influenced his writing. Two of his most famous works were The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which drew from his experiences growing up in Hannibal, Missouri and working on the Mississippi River. These novels typified Twain's style of writing realistically about things he knew firsthand. Even when writing other works set in different time periods and places, like The Prince and the Pauper, Twain drew from his own experiences of boys gradually losing their innocence.

1. Mark Twain
1835-1910

2.  What do you know about Mark
Twain?
 When was he born?
 Where was he born?
 Can you name any of his works?

3. Early life experience
• Born in Florida, Missouri
• At 11, he lost his father
• At 13, he left school
• Steamboat pilot on the Mississippi
• Reporter on the far western frontier
• Traveller abroad
• Began using pseudonym Mark Twain when
writing political reports as journalist for a
Virginian newspaper.

4. Twain’s celebrity
image—Associated
with river boat and
frontier myth.
Iconic image of
Twain as
adventurer.
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5. 1. “
Generally speaking, all literary giants in human
history are also great historians, thinkers and
philosophers. Their works often reveal more
truth than many political essays.
Mark Twain was one of these giants, and his life
and works are a mirror of America of his time.

6.  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

7. Click to edit Master text styles - Standard (4:3)As one of America's first and most important realists and
humorists, Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens,
1835-1910) usually wrote of things he knew about from
first hand experience.
Two of his best-known novels typify this trait: in
his Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain immortalized
the sleepy little town of Hannibal, Missouri. Likewise,
in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (written
after The Prince and the Pauper), the various
characters are based on types which Twain encountered
both in his hometown and while working as a riverboat
pilot on the Mississippi River.

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And even though The Prince and the
Pauper is not based on personal
experience (it is set in sixteenth-century
England), Twain uses the experiences of
two young boys gradually losing their
innocence, as he did in both Tom
Sawyer and Huck Finn.
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9. Other works
 The Prince and the Pauper
 The Cop and the Anthem
 Running for Governor
 The Innocents Abroad
 The Celebrated Jumping Frog of
Calaveras County
 The Gilded Age

11. Symbol
As the boys change clothes, they change identities. Their
lives changed completely.
Someone's clothes define who they are, what social class they
are in. Tom and Edward defy this principal when they swap
clothes.
Themes
 Appearance and reality
 Justice and injustice
 Society and class

12. Characters

13. Remarks: Mark Twain is a part of America.
His personal success and failure were those
of America. He moved, along with
America, from innocence to experience.
Ernest Hemingway : 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.