文档介绍：Chapter 6
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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Chapter6
The Adventures
of Tom Sawyer
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A What do you know about…?
The story on the next page is from a book about boys in a small town in the middle of the USA in 1830s, Look at the pictures below .Which of these things did people have in the USA at that time?
A a car
B rifles
C. a telephone
D. a plane
B
E. a steamboat
G. a bicycle
H. a horse and cart
F. a radio
E
H
Additional words
rifle
cart
steamboat
marbles
three coats(层)
Mark Twain
He is one of the American’s greatest writers, journalists(记者) and humorists(幽默大师). He is also the founder of US critical realism literature(批判现实主义文学), renowned world short story master, the greatest humorist of the19th century in American literature.
Life Experiences
Born in a little town in Mississippi.
At 11, he lost his father.
At 13, he dropped out of school.
At 16, working as a typesetter(排字工) and contributor(投稿人) of articles.
At 18, worked as a printer in New York City.
At 22, worked as a licensed Mississippi river- boat pilot(轮船领航员).
Reporter(记者) on the far western froniter.
Between 1876 and 1884, he published several masterpieces.
Traveler abroad.
Got married with Olivia in 1870 in Elmira
Died of heart attack on April 21,1910
About the background
In the mid-19th century, the southern part of the United States is plantation salvery, and the northern part is bourgeois employee labor system, the contradictions between these two kinds of system caused the political and economic oppositions and concentrated on the issue about supporting and opposing the slavery system and this caused the civil war.
The novel satirizes(讽刺) the foolish religion and condemns(谴责) the sin of slavery by describing white kids with a fugitive slave lived in a vagabond’s life Mississippi river and propagandizes(宣传) the idea that everyone enjoys the rights of freedom regardless of race.