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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By 程雨桐 贾怡珩 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Author Characters Plot Theme Literary Value Introduction of the Author Samuel Langhorne Clemens?(1835?–1910),known by his?pen name?Mark Twain, was an American author and?humorist. In his early years, he was successively a printer’s apprentice, a tramp printer ,a silver miner, a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi, and a frontier journalist in Nevada and California. In 1865, with the publication of his frontier tale,“ The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Country”,（《卡拉维拉县的著名跳蛙》） he became nationally famous. Major Works Roughing It 《艰难岁月》(1872) The Gilded Age (1873) 《镀金年代》 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) 《汤姆索亚历险记》 Life on the Mississippi(1883) 《密西西比河上的生活》 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) 《哈克贝利.费恩历险记》 Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894)《傻瓜威尔逊》 The Man That Corrupted Haddleyburry （1900） 《败坏了赫德莱堡的人》 The Mysterious of Stranger 1916 《神秘的陌生人》 Brief Introduction Setting (time): around 1850, before the Civil War Setting (place): along the Mississippi River Characters: Huck, Jim, etc. Event: their struggle to find freedom and happiness Huck was kidnapped by Pap (his father) from St. Petersburg where he used to live a comfortable but constrained life. Then he escaped to Jackson’s island and met Jim. They went together and encountered with a gang of robbers on a wrecked steamboat. Afterwards Huck and Jim were separated because a steamboat slammed into their raft before. When Huck left there, they met again. They rescued two men, the duke and the dauphin who later proved to be frauds and wanted to swindle Peter Wilks’s inheritance. After Jim was sold by them to Mrs. Phelps, Huck tried to save him and found Mrs. Phelps was Tom Sawyer’s aunt. After twists and turns, Jim became free and Huck decided to flee west to I