Gulistan state university department of the english language and literature

THE MINISTRY OF HIGHER AND SECONDARY SPECIAL
EDUCATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN


GULISTAN STATE UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

COURSE WORK

on theme:
“ Mark Twain : Realism and Reaction "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"”


COMPLIED BY: AXMEDOVA ZARINA
SUPERVISOR: ISMANKULOVA NIGORA


GULISTAN - 2022
CONTENT
INTRODUCTION…………………………………………….3
I CHAPTER The great American writer Mark Twain, whose real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens
1.1 Mark Twain’s biography  4
1.2 His career as well as the creative path he has taken throughout his life 11
II CHAPTER Realism and Reaction "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
2.1 briefly about the content of the work …………………………….18
2.2 The style of creation and realism of the work …………………………………………………………26


CONCLUSION…………………………………………………30
REFERENCES………………………………………………....31

INTRODUCTION

The name Mark Twain is a pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Clemens was an American humorist, journalist, lecturer, and novelist who acquired international fame for his travel narratives, especially The Innocents Abroad (1869), Roughing It (1872), and Life on the Mississippi (1883), and for his adventure stories of boyhood, especially The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). A gifted raconteur, distinctive humorist, and irascible moralist, he transcended the apparent limitations of his origins to become a popular public figure and one of America’s best and most beloved writers.
Twain wrote in many genres, employing themes like racial identity, European and American imperialism, dream life versus “real” life, morality, innocence, and freedom, and he was a master of language, earning a reputation as a magician of words. By the end of his life, Twain was publicly revered and his opinions were sought on every subject of general interest, but he was deeply disillusioned by humanity, angered by the profound inequality of life. Twain’s despair was, in part, fueled by a series of unfortunate events that took place in the later years of his life, beginning with the death of his oldest daughter, Susy. Twain died from a heart attack on April 21, 1910 at age seventy-four.
Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, first published in 1876, and its sequel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn of 1885 are widely known and praised as boyhood adventure stories. Both young and old are fascinated by the nostalgic portraits of American childhood, which are also blended with a good portion of social criticism. This essay will concentrate on the novels’ depiction of South American society and on critical observations and comments made by the author. His attitude towards societal concepts of education, religion and slavery will be examined, as will the conflict between individual and social morality, which is highlighted in the two novels. The subsequent evaluation will consider the question whether Twain’s criticism of his generation continues to be relevant today.
Before I can embark, though, on the study of social criticism in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, it is useful to have some background information about the period of writing and the author’s notion of childhood, which will make it easier to analyse the novels in the context of 19th century American children’s literature. Therefore, I am going to begin with a brief outline of the entirely opposing trends in juvenile fiction in the first and the second half of the 19th century.