1. Mr. Fleckenstein AP English 11
Author Introduction
Mr. Fleckenstein
AP English 11

2. Mark Twain (biography video)
Born Nov. 30, 1835 (Samuel Langhorn Clemens) in Florida, Missouri then moved to Hannibal, Missouri (age 4)
Mischievous boy (Tom Sawyer)
Aversion to school; stopped at age 12
Apprentice in printer shop with brother

3. Mark Twain Left Hannibal in 1853
Traveling Journalist
River boat pilot
Confederate soldier, deserted the cause
Nevada Gold Rusher
1863 adopts penname Mark Twain (river boat)

4. Mark Twain
Married Olivia Langdon 1870 and moved to Hartford, Connecticut
Civilized community
Son died 1872, blamed self
FICTION PERIOD:
The Guilded Age (1873)
Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
Adverntures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)
Died on April 21, 1910

5. Huckleberry Finn THEMES:
Conflict between “sivilization” and “natural life”
Characters representative?
On river vs. On land
Honor/ Stealing
Huck’s Pap? Huck?
Jim steal his kids
Huck stealing Jim
"The people whom Huck and Jim encounter on the Mississippi are drunkards, murderers, bullies, swindlers, lynches, thieves, liars, frauds, child abusers, numbskulls, hypocrites, windbags and traders in human flesh. All are white. The one man of honor in this phantasmagoria is 'Nigger Jim,' as Twain called him to emphasize the irony of a society in which the only true gentleman was held beneath contempt."

6. Huckleberry Finn THEMES:
Satire=_______________________________
Religion
Superstition
Race
Royalty
Slavery
Was Twain a RACIST?
Hypocrisy of whites
Morals:
Right and wrong (heaven and hell)
Chapter 31 “Huck’s Moral Code”

7. Twain’s Influence
Ernest Hemingway claimed in The Green Hills of Africa (1935), for example, that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huck Finn There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since."

8. Twain Quotes and Quote Video: