Chapter 96 Mark Twain's 50th Anniversary

Mark Twain's 50th Anniversary Mark Twain is one of the world cultural celebrities selected by the World Peace Council to commemorate this year.he Died on April 21, 1910, this year (1960) is the 50th anniversary of his death year. For this American writer, although we are already familiar with his name, but for his works, I really can't introduce enough.Most people think that Mark Twain is a humorist, but his laugh is not only Laugh, sometimes downright wry.Among nineteenth-century American writers, those who were able to draw from real life material, and take a critical attitude, Mark? Twain can be said to be the only one, and is exceptionally successful

of.Although many Americans read his works only as comic novels, once found in the book When there is a character very much like their neighbors, or even himself, and at the same time so vividly described Incisively and vividly, he himself had to smile wryly.This is the success of Mark Twain's work. Mark Twain is a successful writer, but his life is very bitter, especially the inner bitterness Pain, and the successive attacks of unfortunate events dealt him a great blow, almost making his whole life worthless. How many peaceful days.This situation is somewhat similar to that of Balzac.However, this series

In a series of disappointments, he finally wrote those many works. This kind of hard work and fighting spirit is very admirable. served. Mark Twain was born in 1835 in a small town named Hannibal in Missouri, USA born here.His original name should have been Samuel Langho Clemence.After writing an article, I adopted The pseudonym "Mark Twain".This is when he was a sailor on a steamship on the Mississippi River, listening to the same Accompanied by measuring the water depth with a plumb weight, I often drink "Mark Twain, Mark Twain" to indicate the depth of the water;

He heard it interesting, and later used the two words "Mark Twain" (Mark Twain) as a pseudonym. So far people in the world only know Mark Twain, and rarely remember his original name. Hannibal, the hometown of Mark Twain, is on the banks of the famous American river, the Mississippi. Born in a not-so-rich family, and his father died early, Mark Twain had a crush on this river since he was a child. Deep affection, for this is exactly his teacher of life.Later, his works used this small town again and again. Using this big river as a subject shows his deep affection for them.His masterpiece "Tom Shaya's Miracle

Encounter is almost written with his own childhood life.In this small town, on this river, He has seen and experienced many moving and terrifying things that he will never forget: A black man was beaten to death, a ferry exploded and sank suddenly - he put all these things together written in his book. Mark Twain worked as a printing apprentice, as a sailor, as a journalist, as a miner, and earned money A lot of money, and a lot of money was cheated by others. In the end, he still lived on the pen and maintained his "village". It is the true nature of "downboy" to mercilessly ridicule those people and things that are not pleasing to the eye.

His cutest.