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1、Mark Twain,(1)HewasanAmerican humorist,satirist,lecturer andwriter. (2)Twainismostnotedforhisnovels AdventuresofHuckleberryFinn,whichhassincebeencalledtheGreatAmericanNovel , andthe AdventuresofTomSawyer.Heisalsoknownforhisquotations.Duringhis lifetime ,Twainbecamea friendtopresidents,artists, indus
2、trialistsandEuropean royalty.,马克吐温(MarkTwain)(原名：SamuelLanghorneClemens),AlthoughMarkTwainswealthisnotmuch,hisgreathumor,witandreputation,knownas oneofthemostfamouspeopleintheUnitedStates,hasbeenhonoured asthe“Americanliterarygiant”,goodatwriting satiricalnovels. He has been hailed as second Lincoln
3、 in the history of American literature.,IlikeMarkTwain-whodoesnotlikehim?EvenGod,willlovehim,givenhiswisdom,andhissoulinapainting. -Helen Keller,马克吐温的四大名著 哈克贝利费恩历险记 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 汤姆索亚历险记 AdventuresofTomSawyer 败坏了哈德莱堡的人 The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg 苦行记 Roughing It,It is the stor
4、y about the boy Tom Sawyer, who lives in America in the first half of the 19th century, and his everyday life and the mischief he makes. It was published in1876. TheAdventuresofTomSawyer is regarded as the classic story dicpicting childrens lives in America and has been popolar in the time.,Adventur
5、esofTomSawyer,Itwaswrittenbeforethecivilwar,the descriptionofthetownST.Petersburgisthe miniature Americansocietyatthattime in fact. Theadventuresofprotagonists satirized andcriticizedvulgarcustoms,hypocriticalAmericanreligiousritualsandinflexiblestaleschooleducation.Thenovelascheerfulasdescribesthec
6、hildrenfreeand livelymind.TheadventuresofTomSawyerbecame oneofthegreatest literaryworksandtheUnited Statesgildedageofruralpastoral.,It described the decadent bourgeois life-style and the sins of slavery by a childs view. A vivid social life scenes and witty humor words in the novel make the readers
7、love it. Outstanding ideological content and unique artistic creativity make it a masterpiece . It is viewed as the origin of American literature.,The California Gold Rush (18481855),Began on January 24,1848,when gold was discovered by James Marshall at Sutters Mill in Coloma , California. News of t
8、he discovery soon spread , resulting in some 300,000 men , women , and children coming to California from the rest of the United States and abroad . Then the Gold Rush attracted tens of thousands from Latin America , Europe , Australia and Asia. Gold , worth billions of todays dollars was re- covere
9、d , which lead to great wealth for a few. However , many returned home with little more than they started with.,The effects of the Gold Rush,Negative Native Americans were attacked; They pushed off traditional lands; Gold mining caused environmental harm.,Marshall,Marshall was the first person who f
10、ound gold , however he didnt rich in the America-shaking gold rush and was strapped . Later he died in this shabby little house.,It is ironic.,The Gilded Age:,The Gilded Age:A Tale of Today is a novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in1873. Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner got the name T
11、he Gilded Age from Shakespeares King John(1595):To gild refined gold , to paint the lily.is wasteful and ridiculous excess. Through the description of an entrepreneur and politician , it exposes the western speculators, entrepreneurs and government officials in the eastern part which plundered wealth of the state and people. Afterwards , people use the gilded age to describe the American history from the end of the Civil War to the end of the 19th century.,