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1、马克吐温的写作风格及技巧 The writing style and writing skill of Mark Twains short stories When talking about American literature, most of people will think about Mark Twain .In America, his position of “The Lincoln of American Literature” is unshakable. Mark Twains true name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens is one o
2、f the most famous humorists in the world .His humorous language; special writing style and writing skill have attracted the people from all over the world. Whats more, “The Adventure of Tom Sawyer” and “The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn” are the most famous and popular works of him. Even today, peop
3、le still enjoying these two books.However, what marked the beginning of Twains literary career are his short stories. These short stories not only displayed the writing style and writing skill of Twain, but his mind in his whole writing career.Being a humorist, Mark Twains short stories are full of
4、special humor and intelligent language .His western-based humor and slangy words had broken the limitation of the traditional literature and dug a bright new road of American literature .All in all, his humor contain following features:First, on the base of western traditional humor, Mark Twain use
5、many hyperbole and extremity exaggerate imagination to make the stories more humorous and more ironic .In “Journalism in Tennessee”, the author described a messing journalism, the editor flub dub and gulf, the readers persist unreasonably and even fighting with the editor. “The chief” and “the colon
6、el” use their dragoon to shot each other, but the bullets always “end their career” in “my body”. This is really a farce! From the beginning to the end, the author had used his great imagination to make the story more ridiculous.Sometimes, Mark Twain used the “wrong matched ” to make the stories mor
7、e exaggerate .In “Running for Governor ” this skill is great used .It said that Mark Twain, the candidate had committed Perjury by “robbing a poor native widow and her helpless family of a meager plantain-patch”, Body-Snatcher by “slandering Governor Hoffmans grandfather”. This words sounds ridiculo
8、us. However it enhances the comedic effect and reveals the hypocrisy of Americans “democratic election” and the blah journalism.Secondarily, Mark Twains humor was not just for amusement, but was a sharp weapon to criticize the evilness of society. He satirized the Sunday-school book, the unfair worl
9、d in “The Story of the Bad Little Boy” and “The Story of the Good Little Boy”. In these two books, he talks about two boys: one is a bad boy, Jim who always does the bad things, he never follows the good model of the textbook, and even hate them, but he becomes a legislature; another boy who always
10、follows the good model of the textbook and does many good things, but died miserably. In these two stories the author often repeat a sentence like this: “ In the Sunday-school book the bad/good little boy always But the truth is ”. It is so ironic that these two different characteristic boys get the
11、se different ending: bad boy does bad things but live a charmed life, the good boy always bad luck when he does good things. The world is unfair, the people in the world is also unfair. Though the content of the Sunday-school book is good good people get reward and the bad people get punish, but the
12、 world isnt . These two stories make readers think deeply while enjoying the humorous and ironic stories.Another notable example is in “How I Edited an Agriculture Paper ”. In the story, the new editor “I” had said these words:“Who writer the dramatic critiques for the second-rate paper? Why, a parc
13、el of promoted shoemakers and apprentice apothecaries Who review the books? People who never wrote one. Who do up the heavy leaders on finance? Parties who have had the largest opportunities for knowing nothing about it ”.These words satirize ignorant and haver of the editors of newspaper. These wor
14、ds was said by “I” who have been in the editorial business going on fourteen years, and also the deeply heart of Mark Twain.Mark Twains humors contained sorrow and satire. He exposed the crime of the exploiting class, of imperialists and of the whole society, showing deep sympathy for the toiled and
15、 persecuted.Besides humor, Mark Twains simple, plain and local color language also attracted many readers. Most of works of Mark Twain are originate from his childhood life, so his language is full of western characteristics. The using of slang, colloquialisms make the stories more interesting and c
16、lose to life. In “Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”, Simon Wheeler tell “me” the stories. Simons words are full of slang and dialect. It makes the story more interesting and the words have displayed his society position and education condition. These kind of words help Twain to display his vivid characters and make the story much more funny and attracted.In Mark Twains story, we can always find that he like to use “I” to be the narrator of the stori
