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to resist the romantic and sentimental, the contrived巧妙策划的 and the melodramatic夸大的, and to register as accurately as possible the way Americans were living “Realism is nothing more and nothing less than the truthful treatment of material.” ----Criticism and Fiction 《批评与小说》 Mark Twain 马克·吐温  (1835-1910) an American author and humorist. most noted for his novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called the Great American Novel”. praised as the “greatest American humorist of his age” William Faulkner called Twain “the father of American literature”. all modern American literature comes from. -- Ernest Hemingway a lot of colloquial idioms colloquial syntax. a master of language short concrete direct in effect simple, even ungrammatical sentence structures words American dialect an American language Mark Twain’s Writing Features He often described people who were innocent, simple, naive, and ignorant as his heroes or heroines. Huck has become rich from his last adventure with Tom Sawyer and that the Widow Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson, have taken Huck into their home in order to try and teach him religion and proper manners. One day Huck discovers that his father, Pap Finn, has returned to town. Because Pap has a history of violence and drunkenness, Huck is worried about Paps intentions, especially toward his invested money. Hucks fears are soon realized when Pap kidnaps him and takes him across the Mississippi River to a small cabin on the Illinois shore. Main story Paps beatings become too severe, and Huck fakes his own murder and escapes down the Mississippi. Huck stumbles across Miss Watsons slave at Jacksons Island, Jim, who has run away for fear he will be sold down the river. The two fugitives escape down the river on a raft Jims plan is to reach the Illinois town of Cairo, and from there, he can take the Ohio River up to the free states. The plan t