1、The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,Characters,Plot,Themes,Writing Style & Tone,Characters,2,3,1,The Stranger,Jim Smiley,Simon Wheeler,4,The narrator“ I ”,Jim Smiley is a man addicted to gambling(赌博); good at finding and educating animals ;
2、likes fooling othersbut doesnt cheat them.,Jim Smiley,we know very little about the stranger, he keeps insisting that it is an ordinary frog to him. cheats,The Stranger,Simon Wheeler西蒙维勒,It has to get pretty lonely out there at the mining camp. Maybe he just wants to talk and doesnt have any shame a
3、bout it. Whatever the reason is, he throws the narrator completely off guard. He talks funny and ungrammatical-like.,A rough, rude, uneducated miner Though Simon Wheeler is bald and lazy, and seems simple, he may be cleverer than he looks.,But then theres the question of why hes so desperate to have
4、 someone listen to him?,The Narrator,The narrator is an educated man , good-natured an upper class gentleman,Is he really so good ?,He is suspicious of his friend and doesnt seem to have a lot of patience or good manners,Plot,The setting of the story is Angels Camp, a mining town in the west, still
5、existing today.,my friend,I,Simon Wheeler,Leonidas W. Smiley,Jim Smiley,If there was a horse-race, youd find him flush or youd find him busted at the end of it; if there was a dog-fight, hed bet on it; if there was a catfight, hed bet on it; if there was a chicken-fight, hed fight on it; why, if the
6、re was two birds setting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first(page 123),He bets on everything, no matter how ridiculous,P123 Even whether parson Walkers (priest) wife would recover or not He was the most unusual man. Parson Walkers wife laid very sick once, for a good while, and it
7、 seemed as if they were not going to save her. But one morning he come in, and Smiley up and asked him how she was, and he said she was considerable better-thank the Lord for his infnit mercy-and coming on so smart that with the blessing of Provs dence shed get well yet, and Smiley, before he though
8、t, says, “Well, Ill resk two-and-a-half she dont anyway.” 有一回，沃尔克牧师的太太病得不轻，有好几天的工夫，眼看着她就没救了；可一天早晨牧师进来了，斯迈雷站起来问他太太怎么样，他说，她好多了全凭主的大恩大德看这势头，有主保佑，她能缓过来；还没等他讲完，斯迈雷来了一句：“这样吧，我押两块五，赌她缓不过来。”,He bets on any thing,Mare,Fifteen-minute nag,Be used to win money,feature,So slow; Always has the asthma(哮喘), or the
9、distemper, or the consumption(肺病),surprise,Always at the fag-end of the race shed get excited and win the match always about a neck ahead,small bull-pup,Andrew Jackson,He doesnt look like he can win a fight until there is money on the table. He would grab that other dog just by the joint of his hind
10、 leg and freeze to it,Fight against a dog without hind leg Died,special,result,Andrew Jackson,Andrew Jackson ,a westerner and the seventh president of the US .Before becoming president, Jackson was a lawyer who practiced in the frontier ,a gambler and an advacate of democracy对总统安德鲁杰克逊进行一番冷嘲热讽,He spe
11、nds three months to train a frog with superior ability,Jump higher and faster than any other frogPut the frog on the marketMake bet,Danl Webster,Daniel Webster,Daniel Webster was an attorney who became one of the American statesmen, serving as a senator and secretary of state. He ran unsuccessfully
12、for president three times and was known for being a very good narrator 政客丹尼尔韦伯斯特喜欢在一些问题上不断改变立场，就如青蛙啪嗒啪嗒跳一样。跳蛙最后输掉了比赛，政客丹尼尔韦伯斯特最后也未能当上美国总统,Climax,welcome to use these PowerPoint templates, New Content design, 10 years experience,They bet 40 bucks,Stranger has no frog,Smiley will catch one for him,Str
13、anger fills frog full of quail shot(铅砂弹),The educated frog could not budge,when he finds he has been cheated, the stranger has gone,Ending,When Wheeler is interrupted from finishing the story, he tells the narrator to wait.The narrator leaves, thinking his quest was fruitless.,Themes,Competition,Cun
14、ning and Cleverness,Contrasting Regions,Jim Smiley is an incorrigible gambler. Though he may like the money he wins, it is also clear that he just enjoys the excitement of competition. Although gambling is usually seen as an unhealthy pastime, Smiley is honorable in that he never cheats in the story
15、.And this story is full of themes about the differences between the West and the East, and about education, the main lesson is about the rules of fair play.,Though Jim Smiley appears to be extraordinarily lucky, it is partly through his cunning and cleverness that he is able to win bets. He is final
16、ly fooled by a stranger, who beats him through cheating.,The story poses a moral distinction between honest and dishonest cleverness. It also shows that you dont necessarily have to be educated and well spoken to be clever, nor is a good education a defense against getting fooled.,Contrasting Region
17、s,Compare and contrast the narrator (who is from the East) with the other characters,Does the use of Andrew Jackson and Danl Webster as nicknames suggest a commentary upon the two regions and their characteristics?,Though the eastern and western United States arent specifically contrasted in this sh
18、ort story, we do see a contrast between the educated, refined narrator from the East and the uneducated but slick characters who populate Angels mining camp in the West. The characters in the West love a good tall tale, while the narrator appears to find it pointless and tedious, but maybe thats bec
19、ause he doesnt get it.,The theme centers on the contrast between the narrator and Simon Wheeler. Twain satirizes, not just old miners and western hicks, but the elite educated easterners who come out west and find their training useless. The contrast between the storys main characters shows that the
20、 educated narrator looks like more of a fool than even Jim Smiley and his weighed down frog.,Writing style: Humors,1)the use of native language and slang fellow-feller wasntwarnt Sos so long as justjest She dont she doesnt Smily said smiley says 2) the use of official language I hereonto append the
21、result,正式语言和俚语、俗语强烈对比，突出身份和文化反差，达到幽默的效果,TONES :disparaging, disbelieving,Take a storys temperature by studying its tone. Is it hopeful? Cynical? Playful?,Though the content suggests the opposite of the tone, the attitude of the narrator towards the subject matter is one of disbelief that his time has been wasted in such a way. Hes annoyed that he has had to listen to such a stupid tale from a man who seems to take it so seriously. His effort to reproduce Wheelers ungrammatical dialect feels slightly mocking.,Thank you,
