文档介绍：The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain ,as a witness of Civil War, experienced the two Americas, the frontier
The Phelpses mistake Huck for Tom
Tom
Jim is freed, but a pursuer shoots Tom in the leg.
Tom’s Aunt Polly then shows up, identifying “Tom” and “Sid” as Huck and Tom.
Miss Watson, who made a provision in her will to free Jim, died two months earlier.
Aunt Sally then steps in and offers to adopt Huck, but Huck, who has had enough “civilizing,” announces his plan to set out for the West.
Huck Finn
Jim
Social yoke(枷锁)
Slavery
get rid of
Freedom
1 Racism and Slavery
Although Twain wrote the novel after slavery was abolished, he set it several decades earlier, when slavery was still a fact of life. But even during the post-Civil War period, there was still an intense white reaction against blacks.
allegorical representation of the condition of blacks in the United States even after the abolition of slavery.
Theme
2 Intellectual and Moral Education
Huck distrusts the morals and precepts of the society that treats him as an outcast and fails to protect him from abuse. These apprehensions about society, and his growing relationship with Jim, lead Huck to question many of the teachings that he has received, especially regarding race and slavery. Through experiences and deep introspection, he comes to his own conclusions, about the hypocritical rules and values of Southern culture.
By the novel’s end, Huck has learned to “read” the world around him, to distinguish good, bad, right, wrong, menace, friend, and so on.
Theme
CONCLUSION
It is Twain’s celebration of simplicity, innocence,
Freedom, nature, wilderness, peace, generosity,
companionship and humanity. It is also a
condemnation of slavery, discrimination, tyranny,
violence, greed, hypocrisy and corruption.
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Colloquial and dialectal speech is the most
outstanding linguistic feature of this novel. Twain’
colloquial style has had a tremendous influence
upon generations of wr