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Mark Twain was the first writer to use the speech of common Americans in his books. He showed that simple American English could be as fine an instrument for great writing as more complex language. Through his books, he captured American experiences as no other writer had. Many of the stories take place in Hannibal, Missouri. The small wooden house where he lived as a boy still stands there. Next to the house is a wooden fence. It is the kind described in Twainõ?Ts book õ?oThe adventures of Tom Sawyerõ? published in eighteen seventy six. In that story, Tom has been told to paint the fence. He does not want to do it but he acts as if the job is great fun. He tricks other boys into believing this. His trick is so successful that they agree to pay him money to let them finish his work. õ?oThe adventures of Tom Sawyerõ? is considered one of the best books about an American boyõ?Ts life in the eighteen hundredsõ?T.
Tom Sawyerõ?Ts good friend is Huckleberry or Huck Finn. Mark Twain tells this boyõ?Ts story in õ?oThe adventures of Huckleberry Finnõ?. Huck is a poor child without a mother õ?Ưõ?Ưõ?Ư His father drinks too much alcohol and beats him. Huckõ?Ts situation has freed him from the restrictions of society. He explores in the woods and goes fishing. He stays out all night and does not go to school. He smokes tobacco. Huck runs away from home. He meets Jim, a black man who has escaped from slavery. They travel together on a raft made of wood down the Mississippi river. Huck describes the trip: õ?oIt was lovely to live on the raft. Other places seem so cramped õ?Ư.. and smothery but a raft donõ?Tt. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft. Sometimes we had that whole river to ourselves for the longest time. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on the backs and look about them, and discussed about d whether they was (?) made or only just happened. Jim, he allowed they were made, but I allowed they happened. I just õ?Ưõ?Ưõ?Ư it took too long to make so manyõ?.

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The debate over Huckleberry Finn reopened in recent years, but for different reasons. The book used the racist expression of its time. So, some people say reading it is so painful and insulting for black children. They know that Twain was really attacking racism, but he attacked indirectly and with humor , so they feel young people will not understand what he was attempting to do. A few of American schools have banned the book for young children, a few have banned for all students. Some schools used a version in which all racist words have been removed. Other people say young people can understand Huckleberry Finn if they studied it with a good teacher. They say the book remains one of the best denunciations of racism õ?Ư ever written.
There is no longer any debate about the importance of The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn in American literature. In 1935, Ernest Hemingway wrote: all modern American literature come from one book by Mark Twain called The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn. There was nothing before, and there was nothing as good, since.
This program was written by Shelley Gollust. Caty Weaver was our producer. Doug Johnson wrote the part of Huckleberry Finn. Iõ?Tm Bob Doughty, and Iõ?Tm Barbara Klein : Join us again next week for õ?oPeople in Americaõ? in Voa special English.
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Mark Twain started writing õ?oHuckleberry Finnõ? as a childrenõ?Ts story, but it soon became serious. The story tells about the social evil of slavery seen through the eyes of an innocent child. Huckõ?Ts ideas about people were formed by the wide society in which he lived. So at first he does not question slavery. Huck knows that important people believe slavery is natural, the law of God. So he thinks it is his duty to tell Jimõ?Ts owners where to find him. Here is part of the story after Huck decides he must do this:
õ?oI felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my live. And I knowed I could pray now. But I didnõ?Tt do it straight off, but lay the paper down and set theyõ?Tre thinking, thinking how good it was for all this happen so, how near I come to be in lost and gone to the hell and went on thinking. And I see Jim before me all the time, in the day, and in the night time. Sometimes moon õ?Ư , sometimes storms. And weõ?Tre all floating along, talking and singing and laughing. But somehow, I couldnõ?Tt seem to strike no places to harden me against him, but only the other kindõ?.

Huck comes to understand that Jim is a good man. He finds he cannot carry out his plan to tell Jimõ?Ts owners where to find him. Instead, he decides to help Jim escape. He decides to do this even if God punished him. Huckõ?Ts õ?Ưõ?Ưõ?Ưõ?Ư.. is part of Twainõ?Ts humor. Huckõ?Ts heart leads him to do the right thing, even when everything he has been touched tells him it is wrong. Huckõ?Ts nature is good, but he has no idea of it. Twain tells us more through Huckõ?Ts voice than Huck himself knows.

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I?Tm Barbara Klein. And I?Tm Bob Doughty with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we?Tll talk tell about one of America?Ts best-known writers: Mark Twain. We also talk about his famous book : The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain wrote The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn in 1884. Since then, the book has been published in at least 60 languages. Some people say it is the best book ever created by an American writer.
American students still read The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn. And parents, teachers and literary experts still debate the issues discussed in the book.
The writer who became Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835. He grew up in Hannibal, Missouri on the Mississippi river. After his father died in 1847, young Samuel went to work as an assistant to a publisher. Ten years later, he became a pilot on a steal steamboat that sailed on the Mississippi. He heard the riverboat workers called out the word "mark twain!" That was a measurement for the depth of water.
In 1861, the American civil war put an end to steamboat traffic on the Mississippi. So Clemens traveled to the west and became a reporter for a newspapers in Nevada and California.
Later, he wrote funny stories and called himself Mark Twain. Twain became famous for his story: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (tựa truyện phải đc viết hoa chữ đầu) in 1865. It tells about a jumping competition among frogs.
Twain also traveled a lot and began writing books about his travels. His stories about a trip to Europe and the Middle East was published in ''''''''''''''''The Innocents Abroad''''''''''''''''. And his stories about life in the western US became the book called Roughing It.
In 1870, he married a Olivia Langdon (pretty landowner) what is it? and moved to Harford, Connecticut. During the 1880s, he wrote books for children, such as ''The Prince and the Pauper'' ?" it tells about a poor boy who trades identities with a member of England''s ruling families. Twain also wrote: Life on the Mississippi ?" this book describes his days as a steamboat pilot and his return to the river 20 years later.
Mark Twain was already a successful writer before he became famous as a public speaker. Over the years, he had invested a lot of money in unsuccessful businesses. In 1893, he found himself deeply in debt. So, to earn money, he traveled around the world giving humorous talks. His speeches made people laugh and remember events they had experienced.
However, his later life was not a happy one. Two of his daughters died, his wife died in 1904 after a long sickness. Some critics think Mark Twain?Ts later works was more serious because of his sadness, he died of heart failure in 1910.
Mark Twain was the first writer to use the speech of common Americans in his books. He showed that simple American English could be as fine an instruments for writing as more complex language. Through his books, he captured American experiences as no other writer had.
Many of the stories take place in Hannibal, Missouri. The small wooden house where he lived as a boy still stands there. Next to the house is a wooden fence. It is the kind described in Twain?Ts book: The Adventure of Tom Sawyer, published in 1876.
In that story, Tom has been told to paint the fence. He does not want to do it. But he acts as if the job is great fun?. He tricks the other boys into believing this. His trick is so successful that they agree to pay him money to let them finish his work. The Adventure of Tom Sawyer is considered as one of the best books about an American boy?Ts life in the 1800s.
Tom Sawyer?Ts good friend is Huckleberry or Huck Finn. Mark Twain tells this boy?Ts story in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Huck is a poor child without a mother or home. His father drinks too much alcohol and beats him.
Huck?Ts situation has freed him from the restrictions of society. He explores in the woods and goes fishing. He stays out all night and does not go to school. He smokes tobacco. Huck runs way from home. He meets Jim, a black man who has escaped from slavery. They travel together on a raft made of woods down the Mississippi River. Huck describes the trip:
''It was lovely to live on the raft. Other places seem so cramped up (chật chội) and smothery, but a raft don?Tt. You feels mighty be free and easy and comfortable on a raft. Sometimes, we''d have that the whole river to ourselves for the longest time. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and looked back up at them, and discuss about whether they were made or only just happened. Jim, he allowed they were made, but I allowed they happened. I?Tve just thought judged it would have take too long to make so many.''
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I?Tm Barbara Klein. And I?Tm Bob Doughty with ?oPeople in America? in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about one of America?Ts best-known writers, Mark Twain. We also talk about his famous book ?oThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?.
Mark Twain wrote ?oThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? in 1884. Since then, the book has been published in at least 60 languages. Some people say it is the best book ever created by an American writer. American students still read ?oThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?. And parents, teachers and literary experts still debate the issues discussed in the book.
The writer who became Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhone Clemons in 1835. He grew up in Hannibal, Missouri on the Mississippi River. After his father died in 1847, young Samuel went to work as an assistant to a publisher. 10 years later he became a pilot on a steamboat that sailed on the Mississippi. He heard the river boat workers called out the words ?omark twain?, that was the measure for the depth of water. In 1861, the American Civil War put an end to the steamboat traffic on the Mississippi. So Clemons traveled west and became a reporter for newspapers in Nevada and California.
Later, he wrote funny stories and called himself Mark Twain. Twain became famous for his story ?oThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County? in 1865. It tells about a jumping competition among frogs.
Twain also traveled alot a lot and began writing books about his travels. His stories about a trip to Europe and the Middle East was published in ?oThe Innocents Abroad?. And his stories about life in the western United States became the book called ?oRoughing It?.
In 1870, he married Olivia Langdon and moved to Hartford, Connecticut. During the 1880s, he wrote books for children, such as ?oThe Prince and the Pauper?. It tells about a poor boy who trades identities with a member of England''s ruling family. Twain also wrote ?oLife on the Mississippi?. This book describes his days as a steamboat pilot and his return to the river 20 years later.
Mark Twain was already a successful writer before he became famous as a public speaker. Over the years, he had invested a lot of money in unsuccessful bussinesses. In 1893, he found himself deeply in debt. So, to earn money, he traveled arround the world giving humorous talks. His speeches made people laugh and remember events they had experienced.
However, his later life was not a happy one. Two of his daughters died. His wife died in 1904 after a long sickness. Some critics think Mark Twain?Ts later works were more serious because of his sadness. He died of heart failure in 1910.
Mark Twain was the first writer to use the speech of common Americans in his books. He showed that simple American English could be as fine an instrument for great writing as more complex language. Through his books, he?Td captured American experiences as no other writers had.
Many of the stories take place in Hanibal, Missouri. The small wooden house where he lived as a boy still stands there. Next to the house is a wooden fence. It is the kind described in Twain''s book ?oThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer?, published in 1876. In that story, Tom has been told to paint the fence. He does not want to do it. But he acts as if the job is great fun. He tricks other boys into believing this. His trick is so successful that they agree to pay him money to let them finish his work. ?oThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer? is considered one of the best books about an American boy?Ts life in the 1800s.
Tom Sawyer?Ts good friend is Huckleberry, or Huck Finn. Mark Twain tells this boy?Ts story in ?oThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?. Huck is a poor child without a mother or home. His father drinks too much alcohol and beats him.
Huck?Ts situation had freed him from the restrictions of society. He explores in the woods and goes fishing. He stays out all night and does not go to school. He smokes tobacco. Huck runs away from home. He meets Jim, a black man who has escaped from slavery. They travel together on a raft made of wood down the Mississippi River. Huck describes the trip:
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