Reflections on Mark Twain's Selected Short Stories

After reading the whole book, what moved me most was the article "The Man Who Corrupted Fort hedley", which mainly tells the story of a stranger who passed by Fort hedley and racked his brains to get back at the residents of this town because he unintentionally offended the people in this town. He lured the people of Heidelberg with a bag of 160 pounds and 4 ounces of gold coins, hoping to tarnish the good reputation of honesty that the people of Heidelberg were proud of. As a result, the stranger succeeded He fabricated a fictional story in the name of the dead, so that 19 chief residents were lured by money and lied. Finally, the lie was exposed and those people became the laughing stock of everyone.

After reading this novel, I have many feelings. Those feelings can be summed up in one sentence: honesty is the best quality of human beings!

In my opinion, Mark Twain is not only a novelist, but also a thinker and philosopher in spirit and style. His works are not only interesting, but also thought-provoking. He really lit up my heart like a twinkling star!

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Mark. Twain's Collection of Short Stories adopts nine short stories written by Mark Twain, namely, Running for the Governor, the infamous jumping frog in Gallivila County, Confessions of a dying man, Is he still on the earth, A joke that brought good luck to Ed, the man who ruined Fort hedley, and Is that heaven or hell? ","30 thousand dollar legacy ","mysterious stranger "

Among these novels, one is Mark. Twain may not have a far-reaching influence on the adaptation of folk stories, but the humorous style revealed in it is Mark. Twain is unique. The notorious jumping frog in California County created a gambling addict Jim in a short time. The image of smillie. Mark. Twain's calm and humorous brushwork is in Jim. Smillie's image is beginning to appear. By shaping this image, he seems to have outlined and mocked an aspect of Americans in the period of capitalist development.

The people who corrupted Fort hedley fully showed all kinds of ugliness in front of money. The old motto of Heidelberg Town is "Don't let us be tempted"; The new motto is changed to "please make us tempted." The old adage represents the era dominated by ascetic religion in the past, while the new adage reflects the core essence of modern capitalist civilization, which is to incite people's material desires as much as possible.

The legacy of $30,000 reveals the unparalleled magic of money in many societies. Modern people can give up morality, human feelings and all kinds of fun in real life for money, and their life goals become surprisingly single, except for the flash and imagination of money in front of them. Besides, they are mentally embarrassed and dull.

Mark. Twain's collection of short stories, which is a classic, is worthy of our children's collection and reading, and is an essential spiritual food for children's holidays.

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In American society, nothing corrupts people more than money. Although Mark Twain unconsciously revealed the dream of making money for ordinary people, for example, at the end of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom and Huck discovered a large amount of gold hidden by robbers; But his criticism of money hit the nail on the head. If the hero in "Million Pound Bill" is self-sustaining despite his windfall, which reflects his pure and noble conscience and love in ugliness, "30,000 Yuan Heritage" vividly depicts the fantasy and absurdity of the poor couple's Jin Meng-but we can only smile bitterly and feel sorry for them at the same time. After all, they are innocent little people! However, when it comes to the person who corrupted the residents of Fort Hadley, it is simply "there are no good people in Hongtong County". Almost all the people in the town who have some status give in to money and worship. Under such anatomy, who can laugh? I'm afraid I can only mourn for mankind. From cynicism full of jokes and abuse to cynicism focusing on politics and penetrating, it is the deepening of Mark Twain's thought and the maturity of his works, and we appreciate his works step by step.

Literary works are inseparable from the carrier of language and writing. The popularity of Mark Twain's works is attributed to his mastery of language besides his novel ideas and proper analysis. As we all know, people's expressions in daily life are the most vivid, vivid and energetic; But only after being adopted by writers and written into their works can they be mature, stereotyped and popularized. Bernard Shaw once called Mark Twain a master of languages, which was not a compliment. It can be said that without Mark Twain (and others, of course), there would be no American English today. It should be said that it is precisely because of Mark Twain's proper use of American English that his pure American works fully reflect the bold, optimistic and informal American national character.

As a humorous satirist and American English master, Mark Twain's position in the history of American literature is unshakable. (.)

In the special climate of 1950s and 1960s in China, Mark Twain was one of the few American and even western writers who introduced readers the most. But because of this, the analysis and evaluation of him often has too many utilitarian purposes and is not comprehensive enough. This time, People's Literature Publishing House included Mark Twain's short stories and his representative works in the library of world literary masterpieces, which can indeed receive the effect of making world literary masterpieces spread on the bookshelves of literary lovers for generations in exquisite versions.