Mark Twain

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Mark Twain :

Mark Twain, is an American writer and humorist born November 30, 1835 in Florida, United States. To support the family's needs, the young Clemens abandoned his studies and became an apprentice typographer in the village printing house. In 1850, he joined the newspaper founded by his brother and wrote his first articles. His real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens but he is called Mark Twain because he meets a steamboat captain named Horace E. Bixby, who manages to convince him to work for him. From this meeting was born his pseudonym: when he checked the depth of the river, the captain shouted "mark twain!", jargon words to indicate that the depth was sufficient. He was inspired by these trips in his novels.

Document 2, My new plan page 189 book :

1. Description :

On the first document, the extract from the graphic novel of Mark Twain, we can see different portrait of Jim and Huck, which shows the moments they both spent and their complicity. On the left of the image we see them laughing together as they smile, they look happy. In the middle of the image, they both talk they look pretty serious. On the right, we see Huck holding a piece of paper in his hand, he is thinking and he seems puzzled. In the background we see a lake and a sunset, Jim and Huck look at the landscape. In the second picture, we see Huck near the lake tearing the paper.

2)   Read these other extracts and guess what happened to Jim :

Jim is a slave escape, he told this secret to Huck and the stake is for huck to reveal to Jim's owner where he is because he writes it down on a piece of paper is if he denounces him Jim will lose his freedom and become a slave again. But today huck is Jim's friend and won't report him so Jim is free.

3) Identify Huck’s new plan and comment on his emotion in the passage :

Huck's new plan is to continue to protect Jim even though it will cost him his reputation if anyone knows he's helping an escape slave. He wants to take Jim out of slavery. He remembers all the good times they had and he can't betray it cause now he's his friend no matter he's been a slave in the past. During this passage, his emotion is joy because he sympathizes and empathizes with Jim because of their friendship.

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