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1、An Analysis of the Writing Styles of Mark Twain His colloquial Language and Satire in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn I. The Background of Mark Twain1.1 Mark Twain and His Experience Mark Twain, pseudorym of Samuel langhone Clemens, was brought up in the town of Hannibal, Missouri, near the Missi
2、ssippi River. He was twelve when his father diod and he had to leave school. He was successively a printers apprentice, a tramp printer, a silver miner, a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi, and a frontier journalist in Nevada and California. This knocking about gave him a wide knowledge of humanity
3、. As one of Americas first and foremost realists and humorists, Mark Twain usually wrote about his own personal experiences and things he knew about from firsthand experience. His life spanned the two Americas, the frontier America and the emerging urban, industrial giant of the twenty-century. As a
4、 witness of the civil war, Twain saw clearly the great changes in nations economic development and political life. With the final victory over the South the North once again enjoyed its wielding power in the nations administration. Now the acute conflict at home was undermined and the American peopl
5、e again focused their full attention on re-construction after the war. Because most majority of the slaves were emancipated, the slave-based economy of the defeated South had its prosperity became rootless. In this case, clusters of groundless southern poor whites and the newly freed slaves headed d
6、irectly of indirectly for the new-liberated cities to seek opportunities. It may be called the Gold Rush rejuvenated, or rather, it was so-called the American Dream by some critics. Twain also could not help rushing to the west to will his American dream. He once believed the idea of development and
7、 industrialization since it would modernize the young country and encourage the enterprising spirit of the American who had long been famous for it. He was firmly enthralled by such fever, so once again he held an optimistic attitude towards the post-westward expansion. He drew much inspiration from
8、 the unparalleled and magnificent event and spoke highly of its decision-makers and its people. 1.2 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The best work that Mark Twain ever produced is, as we noted earlier on, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It tells a story about the United States before the Civil
9、 War, around 1850, when the great Mississippi Valley was still being settled. Here lies an America, with its great national faults, full of violence and even cruelty, yet still retaining the virtues of some simplicity, some innocence, and some peace. The story takes place along the Mississippi River
10、, on both sides of which there was unpopulated wilderness and a dense forest. It relates the story of the escape of Jim from slavery and, more important, how Huck Finn, floating along with him and helping him as best he could, changes his mind, his prejudice about black people, and comes to accept J
11、im as a man and as a close friend as well. At the heart of Twains achievement is his creation of Huck Finn, who embodies that mythic America, midway between the wilderness and the modern super state. 1.3 A General Introduction to the Mississippi The Mississippi is not only Mark Twains life stage but
12、 also American societys stage. It flows through the middle of America; its one of the greatest rivers in the world. In Twains early years, the geographic core was the great valley of the Mississippi River, and the Mississippi is the main artery of transportation on the young nations heart. In 1857,
13、young Mark Twain entered that world as a cub pilot on a steamboat. Later, when he wented to write something, this land provided him with many plentiful writing materials. II. Analyzing Two Writing Styles of Mark Twain (in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) Mark Twain was the first important writer
14、to consistently use the American speech rather than Englands English. His honor, whether it was aimed at pure entertainment or at social satire, was irresistible. His realism, and details influenced many later American novelists. That was why Ernest Hemingway once said “all modern American literatur
15、es came from one book written by Mark Twain called The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” And it became Twains masterpiece. Mark Twains three years life on that returned to the Mississippi left such a fond memory with him that returned to the theme more than once in his writing career. Huckleberry Fin
16、n is a veritable recreation of living models, and is Hucks book, not Jims. The two major characters, Huck and Jim, represent the two sides of the dilemma: Huck strikes out for an absolute freedom, while Jim requires, in order to gain his own freedom, that Huck qualify his freedom by entering into the pursuit of Jims. It starts out as a comedy , an As You Like It with a hero drawn from the bottom of society rather than the t
