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单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,A famous man who is called,Mirror of America!,Do you know who it is?,主讲:贺宝辉,于海鹏,第1页,Mark Twain Mirror of America,第2页,Mr.Clemens lives on in the hearts and minds of grateful readers everywhere.,1.Why is Mark Twain considered“,mirror of America,”?,第3页,Life introduction,Famous Saying,第4页,Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in,Florida,Missouri,on November 30,1835,to a,Tennessee,country merchant,Early Life,第5页,When Twain was four,his mother died,the family moved to,Hannibal,Missouri,第6页,At that time,Missouri was a,slave state(,蓄奴州,),and young Twain became familiar with the,institution of slavery,(奴隶制度),a theme he would later explore in his writing.,第7页,When Twain was 11,his father died of,pneumonia,(,肺炎),.,第8页,The next year,he became a printers apprentice.In 1851,he began working as a typesetter,(排字工人),and contributor of articles and humorous sketches for the,Hannibal Journal,(汉尼拔杂志),第9页,He worked as a river pilot,until the,American Civil War,broke out in 1861 and traffic along the Mississippi was,curtailed,(,缩减,).,第10页,Twains journey ended in the silver-mining town of Virginia City,where he became a,miner,(矿工),.,Twain failed as a miner and found work at a Virginia City newspaper,Here he first used his famous pen name.,第11页,Marriage and children,Twain claimed to have fallen in love with,Olivia,at first sight.,They got married in February 1870.,They had four children,while the only son was died at 19 months.,第12页,第13页,Later Life,照片下留言:好好,你将会孤独。马克,吐温,第14页,Twain died of a heart attack on April 21,1910,in Redding,one day after the comets closest approach to Earth.,第15页,马克,吐温一股密西西比河洪流,第16页,第17页,第18页,Life on the Mississippi,第19页,The adventure of Tom Sawyer,第20页,The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,第21页,第22页,“Everyone is a moon,and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”,Picture from Dave Thomson collection:,When the god shuts your door,he will open a window for you,。,第23页,“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”,“Humor is mankinds greatest blessing.”,第24页,Thank You!,第25页,
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