4_英美名着影视赏析The_Adventures_of_Tom_Sawyer.ppt

英美名著影视赏析 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 《汤姆·索亚历险记》 1.1The author’s life and literary accomplishment In 1835 Mark Twain was born in the town of Florida, Missouri. Hannibal would become the model for St. Petersburg, the fictionalized setting of Twains two most popular novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn*. He died in 1910,one of Americas most beloved humorists and storytellers. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer remains perhaps the most popular and widely read of all Twains works. 1.1The author’s life and literary accomplishment Twain based The Adventures of Tom Sawyer largely on his personal memories of growing up in Hannibal in the 1840s. In his preface to the novel，he states that “most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred and that the character of Tom Sawyer has a basis in “a combination… of three boys whom I knew.“ Indeed， nearly every figure in the novel comes from the young Twains village experience: Aunt Polly shares many characteristics with Twains mother; Mary is based on 1.1The author’s life and literary accomplishment Twains sister Pamela; and Sid resembles Twains younger brother, Henry. Huck Finn, the Widow Douglas, and even Injun Joe* also have real-life counterparts, although the actual Injun Joe was more of a harmless drunk than a murderer. Unlike Twains later masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer concerns itself primarily with painting an idyllic picture of boyhood life along the Mississippi River. Though Twain satirizes 1.1The author’s life and literary accomplishment adult conventions throughout The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, he leaves untouched certain larger issues that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn explores critically. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer never deals directly with slavery，for example ,and ,while the towns dislike of Injun Joe suggests a kind of small-town xenophobia, Injun Joes murders more than justify