unit-1-The-Boys'-Ambition.ppt

TheBoys'AmbitionUnitOneIntroductionofMarkTwainMarkTwain,Writer/HumoristBorn:30November1835Birthplace:Florida,MissouriDied:21April1910(heartfailure)BestKnownAs:TheauthorofTomSawyerandHuckleberryFinnNameatbirth:SamuelLanghorneClemensMarkTwainMarkTwainisonnearlyeveryone'slistofall-,Missouriandasayoungmanheldaseriesofjobswhichincludedworkasaprinter'sapprentice,aMississippiriverboatpilot,,,especiallyTheAdventuresofTomSawyer(1876)andHuckleberryFinn(1885),(1883)andAConnecticutYankeeinKingArthur'sCourt(1889)andtheshortstoryTheCelebratedJumpingFrogofCalaverasCounty(1867)whichmarkedthebeginningofTwain''sCometpassedbyEarth:1835and1910...Hispseudonym,MarkTwain,wastakenfromMississippiriverboatterminology;it'sameasureofdepth...TwainmarriedtheformerOliviaLangdonin1870;shediedin1904,andthemelancholytoneofTwain',Twainwrotesomeofhisbestwork:TheGildedAge(1873),asatiricalnovelwrittenwithCharlesDudleyWarneraboutmaterialismandcorruptioninthe1870s;twoevocationsofhisboyhoodinHannibal,TheAdventuresofTomSawyer(1876)andTheAdventuresofHuckleberryFinn(1884);ThePrinceandthePauper(1882),anovelforchildrenthatblendsthesimplicityofafairytalewithrealisticsocialcriticism;andthenonfictionalLifeontheMississippi(1883).Healsoproducedatravelbook,ATrampAbroad(1880),andAConnecticutYankeeinKingArthur'sCourt(1889),'sAmbitionisachapterexcerptedfromMarkTwain'sbookLifeontheMi