1、The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,哈克贝利费恩历险记,Mark Twain,11 马静,Genre Satiric(讽刺的) Novel Setting Time Before the Civil War; roughly 18351845 Place The Mississippi River town of St. Petersburg, Missouri The adventure continues down the Mississippi into Arkansas,Information,Huckleberry Finn Jim Tom Sawy
2、er,Main Characters,Life in St. Petersburg Paps Cabin Jacksons Island The Grangerfords vs. the Shepherdsons The Duck and the king Wilks Funeral Phelps Farm,Life in St. Petersburg,Huck has been placed under the guardianship(监护) of the Widow Douglas, who, together with her sister, Miss Watson, is attem
3、pting to civilize（教化） him. Huck appreciates their efforts, but finds civilized life confining（受约束的).,According to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ,another famous work of Mark Twain, Huck and his friend Tom have earned a considerable sum of money as a result of their earlier adventures.,However, his lif
4、e is changed by the sudden reappearance of his shiftless(无能的) father “Pap”, an abusive parent and drunkard（酒鬼）. Although Huck is successful in preventing him from acquiring his fortune, Pap forcibly gains custody（监护） of him and moves him to his backwoods cabin（小屋）.,Paps Cabin,Though Huck prefers thi
5、s to his life with the widow, he resents（怨恨） his fathers drunken violence and his habit of keeping him locked inside the cabin.,During one of his fathers absences Huck escapes, elaborately（精心地） fakes his own murder and sets off down the Mississippi River.,While living quite comfortably in the wilder
6、ness along the Mississippi, Huck encounters Miss Watsons slave Jim on an island called Jacksons Island.,Jacksons Island,Huck learns that Jim has also run away after he overheard Miss Watsons plan to sell Jim downriver, where conditions for slaves were even harsher, because he would bring a price of
7、$800. Jim is trying to make his way to Cairo(开罗), Illinois（伊利诺斯州） and then to Ohio（俄亥俄州）, a free state, so he can buy his familys freedom.,Huck and Jim take up in a cavern(大洞穴) on a hill on Jacksons Island to wait out a storm. When they can, they scrounge(四处寻找) around the river looking for food, woo
8、d, and other items. One night, they find a raft（竹筏） they will eventually use to travel down the Mississippi.,Later, they find an entire house floating down the river and enter it to grab what they can. Entering one room, Jim finds a man lying dead on the floor, shot in the back while apparently tryi
9、ng to ransack（洗劫） the house.,To find out the latest news in the area, Huck dresses as a girl and goes into town. Huck returns quickly to the island where he tells Jim of the impending(即将发生的) danger. The two immediately load up the raft and leave the island.,The Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons,Huck
10、 and Jims raft is swamped（淹没，陷于） by a passing steamship, separating the two. Huck is given shelter by the Grangerfords, a prosperous local family.,The Grangerfords are engaged in a 30-year blood feud（仇恨，怨恨） against another family, the Shepherdsons. In the resulting conflict, all the Grangerford male
11、s from this branch of the family are shot and killed, although Grangerfords elsewhere survive to carry on the feud.,Huck reunits with Jim and the raft and together flees farther south on the Mississippi River.,The Duke and the King,Further down the river, Jim and Huck rescue two cunning（狡猾的） grifter
12、s, who join Huck and Jim on the raft.,They paint Tom up entirely in blue and call him the “Sick Arab“. On one occasion they arrive in a town and advertise a three-night engagement of a play which they call “The Royal Nonesuch“. The play turns out to be only a couple of minutes of hysterical cavortin
13、g（歇斯底里的嬉闹）, not worth anywhere near the 50 cents the townsmen were charged to see it.,By the third night of “The Royal Nonesuch“, the townspeople are ready to take their revenge; but the Duke and the King have already skipped town, and together with Huck and Jim, they continue down the river.,Once t
14、hey are far away enough, the two grifters test the next town, and decide to impersonate（冒充） two brothers of Peter Wilks, a recently deceased(已故的) man of property.,Wilks Funeral,The arrival of two new men who seem to be the real brothers throws everything into confusion when none of their signatures
15、match the one on record. The “Duck” and the “King” manage to rejoin Huck and Jim on the raft.,Phelps Farm,After the four fugitives（逃犯） have drifted far enough from the town, the King takes advantage of Hucks temporary absence to sell his interest in the “escaped“ slave Jim for forty dollars.,Jim is
16、being held at the plantation of Silas and Sally Phelps, Toms aunt and uncle. Since Tom is expected for a visit, Huck is mistaken for Tom. He plays along, hoping to find Jims location and free him. When Huck intercepts Tom on the road and tells him everything, Tom decides to join Hucks scheme, preten
17、ding to be his younger half-brother Sid.,Rather than simply sneaking Jim out of the shed（小屋） where he is being held, Tom develops an elaborate（缜密的） plan to free him. During the resulting pursuit, Tom is shot in the leg.,Jim remains with him rather than completing his escape, risking recapture. Huck
18、has long known Jim was “white on the inside“.Although the doctor admires Jims decency（礼貌）, he betrays him to a passing skiff（小艇）, and Jim is captured while sleeping and returned to the Phelps family.,After Jims recapture, events quickly resolve themselves. Toms Aunt Polly arrives and reveals Huck an
19、d Toms true identities. Tom announces that Jim is a free man: Miss Watson died two months earlier and freed Jim in her will, but Tom chose not to reveal Jims freedom so he could come up with an elaborate（精细的） plan to rescue Jim.,In the final narrative, Huck declares that he is quite glad to be done
20、writing his story, and despite Sallys plans to adopt and “civilize“ him, Huck intends to flee west to Indian Territory.,Mark Twain described the major theme of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as “A sound heart and a deformed（变形的） conscience（良心） come into collision, and conscience suffers defeat.” “A sound heart” = a good, honest heart. “A deformed conscience” = a conscience influenced by the laws of society and a sense of duty toward those laws.,Themes,Themes:, Racism & SlaveryIntellectual and Moral EducationThe Hypocrisy of “Civilized” Society （文明社会的伪善）,Thank you!,
