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1、Mark Twain - Mirror of America,Made by: Chanel Luo,Para 13 Text Analysis,Mirror of America,“Mirror ”Is a piece of glass or other shinny/polished surface that reflects images. Here, it is a metaphor. It means a faithful representation or description of something (the USA).Why does the author say that
2、 Mark Twain is the mirror of America?,Mark Twain: Samuel Langhorne Clemens,His Life _ Historic Events of USATramp printer 印刷工 - Prosperous River pilot 领航员 - Mississippi RiverTranscontinental RailroadsGuerrilla 游击队员 -The Civil WarProspector 淘金者 - Gold RushReporter 记者 - Westward ExpansionCorrespondent
3、 通信员 - Europe, the Holy LandWriter 作家 -Tom Sawyers innocence Huck Finns experience,The assertion that Mark Twain is the mirror of America is made in two senses.,Mark Twains exciting, adventuresome life stories themselves mirror a part of true American history, and the life of ordinary American peopl
4、e.,Mark Twain,Second, his life experience furnished him with a wide knowledge of humanity, as well as with the perfect grasp of local customs and speech, which Mark Twain has manifested so well in his writing.,His works mirror the real society of his time.,The whole sentence structure: parallelism.r
5、ememberas e.g.鲁迅创造了阿Q, 这是大多数的中国人所熟知的.Most Chinese people remember Luxun as the father of Ah Qu.Father: metaphor, here means the creator or the author.cruise through eternal boyhood：journey through lasting boyhood endless summer of freedom and adventure：long summer full of free and adventurous activi
6、ties Eternal & Endless: hyperbole夸张,这两个词说明哈克贝利费恩和汤姆索亚两个人物会永远活在读者心中,突出了马克吐温笔下的两个文学形象的永恒魅力.Idyllic cruise 诗情画意的旅程Idyllic: a simple happy period of life, often in the country, or a scene from such a time.cruise: a sea voyage for pleasure, especially one on a large ship and lasting for s everal days or
7、weeks.,Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finns idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyers endless summer of freedom and adventure.,In-deed, this nations best-loved author was every bit as adventurous, patriotic, romantic, and humorous as anyone has ever imagined.ev
8、ery bit as as :just asas, quite asas 完全，同样的e.g. He is every bit as clever as you are. AdventurousPatrioticRomanticHumorous,Do they have deep meanings apart from their literal meanings?,“Adventurous” Mark Twain liked to try something new, like a new life, a new place and new writing skills and so on.
9、 “patriotic” shows his strong passion or love for his country, countrymen and natural scenery. “romantic”idealistic ,emotional and artistic. “humorous” he made people laugh, brought them fun and joy, his writing is full of witty languages.,Further understanding of these adjectives,Cynical 愤世嫉俗的a cyn
10、icdenying the sincerity of peoples motives and actions; seeing no goodness in human behavior. having little faith in human sincerity or goodness. E.G. a cynical man / a cynical attitude / a cynical smileProfound: to emphasize that sth. is very great and intense 深度的,深远的 E.G. His love/feeling for his
11、country was profound.deal: to give , to give out, to strike, to distribute给予deal sb. a blow to cause sb. great difficultiesHe dealt me a hard blow on the chin.obsess: v . To occupy the mind of excessively, keep thinking about sth. and find it difficult to think about anything else. 使着迷, 困扰The fear o
12、f death obsessed her throughout her old age.,frailty: a weakness of character or behavior.虚弱,弱点One of the frailties of human nature is laziness.Frailty, thy name is woman! (Hamlet)“A black wall of night” - Rhetoric device, Structure, Imply ?Rhetoric device - Metaphor, compare the dark night as the b
13、lack wall Structure - n.+of (像)+n.Imply - the color “black” or “dark” and “night” -implies something hopeless. opposite to “day” and “daybreak and “light”- “hope” or “hopefulness”. “a black wall of night” - “despair and hopelessness”. e.g. He did not see a bright future but a dark one and a hopeless
14、 one.,同义词区别: wander, range, saunter, strollRange to travel without any definite plan or destination, a fairly literary use.Wander implies the absence of a fixed course or more or less indifference to a course that has been fixed or otherwise indicated. The term may imply the movement of a walker whe
15、ther human or animal, but it may be used of anything capable of direction.漫游,徘徊Saunter stresses a leisurely pace and in idle and carefree mind. 漫步,闲逛Stroll differs from saunter chiefly in the implications of an objective, (as sight-seeing or exercise) pursued without haste and sometimes with wanderi
16、ng from one place to another.散步,漫步,How to understand the sentence “digesting the new American experience before sharing it with the world as writer and lecturer” ?,Possible answers: Mark Twain travelled around the world and wrote about things or the experience that he had been observed and absorbed. He acted as a carrier to spread or introduce his idea and his information to his readers through his books or lectures.Here digest means that you think about it, understand it, and remember it.,
