Some of his 23 works have been forgotten and chewed by the world, but The Adventures of the urchin and Tom are immortal masterpieces. In the next few hundred years, Toona sinensis will always be the most popular book as long as there are children in the world. These two books are based on his own pastoral experience. When reading them, it is not difficult to find that his experience has jumped to the page. Mark Twain was born in a small house with only two rooms in Misuri, Florida. The house where he lived as a child may not be a cowshed armpit or a henhouse now. Their family of seven lives in a place like the Greek slave house. He was so weak when he was born that some people even thought that he might not survive the winter of that year. However, under the care of his mother, he grew up quietly, but he became a headache for the people of the river, problem children. According to his mother, none of the six children born in Oak got into so much trouble as he did. His two best skills are pranks. He dislikes going to school very much. He often plays truant to the basket Mississippi River, takes a raft to the mysterious island, where the river is full of jade, or sits on the shore and looks at the rough landscape of the swamp Mississippi River, indulging in his own fantasies.
He almost drowned in the river nine times, but he still likes to play Mark Twain's profile, Indian games or pirate games by the river, or go into caves to explore, eat turtle meat, or take a raft down the river to a place far away from home. These precious little experiences eventually led to the birth of two immortal proverbs. Mark Twain inherited his innate sense of humor from his mother mushroom. It is said that his father is a unsmiling man. As for his mother, he once described it like this: "Whenever I knock on my mother's humorous words, she will pretend for a while and not feel humorous. This talent is rare for men, especially for women. " Because of his mother's humorous ability, Mark Xiong Tu Wen's speech is almost full of false sense of humor, so the speech fee is also a large part of his income. His mother has a gentle personality and has never killed a fly. If her cat kills a mouse, she will punish it. One foot, the mother cat gave birth to several kittens. She couldn't keep so many Ni cats at home, so she had to put them in the water and let them drown. According to Yu, in order to alleviate the suffering of the kittens, he thought that her mother specially heated the water before the Buddha put them in.
Mark Twain, a teenager in the secret age, hated school very much. He thinks the school is a place where he can win rank and freedom. He just wanted to walk in the seaweed forest and explore the Mississippi River, but the cabin in the school hindered his action. Mark Twain's father died at the age of 12, and his chance to escape from the Xuezhi school finally came. He realized that his father would never come back, and he deeply regretted the naughty and willful wedge of the past. He once said, "I often rebelled against my father, and I almost never listened to his difficult words." Even today, I will still shed tears of regret when I think about it. " Seeing his bleak situation, his mother comforted him and said, "What crosses the grain is a sword that can never be redeemed. Now your father knows nothing. If you really feel sorry for the future, promise me that you will never be a leopard again. " "As long as I don't go to sugar cane school anymore, I will answer anything." Mark Twain said with tears. Two or three days later, his mother sent Mark Twain as an apprentice to the can printing factory. His mother thinks that if he can learn printing technology, it will be beneficial to his future livelihood. In a sense, this is tantamount to education.
In the first two years, the printing factory was only for dirty food and shelter, and Mark Twain didn't get any salary. One afternoon after working in the crying printing factory for two years, in the temple, when Mark Twain walked seven times on the road in Hannibal, Misuri, a piece of paper was blown to the side of the road by the wind and he picked it up. It seems like a trivial matter, but it is a great event that changed Macelo Wong Twain's life. It turned out that the paper on the boat was one of the masterpieces in The Biography of Joan of Arc, which described the plot of Joan being imprisoned in Yuncheng. Mark Twain found this fact unreasonable-Yao-14-year-old Mark couldn't help but feel indignant. But who is Joan of Arc and what happened to her? He doesn't know anything. Since then, he has read all the books about Joan of Arc, and his concern for Joan lasted for most of the time. Finally, he even wrote a book, Random Thoughts of Joan of Arc. Although Yu Ran doesn't think this book is his best work in the eyes of book critics, he thinks it is his best work. At that time, he was famous as a humorous writer, Ray. If he publishes under the name of Mark Twain, he may be mistaken for a humorous work. In order to make readers read this Sui Shu seriously, he didn't publish it under the name of Mark Twain.
Clever writer Albert. In the Biography of Mark Twain written by Bigelow and Jia Peiyin, there is a passage that reads: "From the moment I suddenly picked up a dead page in the Biography of Joan of Arc, Mark Ru Twain had a great interest and enthusiasm for history. This enthusiasm is the biggest sign of his intellectuality, and it has not disappeared until the last day. That piece of paper that fluttered with the wind made him an excellent intellectual and really set his future. " In dealing with financial affairs, he has no nephew's talent, and even the hare in Ye Ping, Kansas has a better vision than him. He often engages in some undertakings that make ugly people incredible. For example, for a time, based on the knowledge he learned from the book, he thought that buying cocoa from the dense forests in the upper reaches of the Amazon River and selling it exclusively could get considerable loyalty benefits. However, he knows nothing about cocoa and has no travel expenses to distant South America. Even if he can reach the upper reaches of the Amazon river smoothly, he can't talk to the local aborigines. In the end, he may die of fever. One day, however, a miracle happened. On the way, he found a bill from 50 yuan. He used it to call 50 yuan and set out for the Congamazon River. But when he arrived in New Guinea, he had to give up the plan and go home, because the ghosts around him had run out of money.
Later, Hui got huge income from copyright fees and speech training fees. However, no matter what kind of career he devoted himself to, he would fail without exception. For example, he once invested in a steam generator and owned the patented arch right. As a result, cooking could not generate electricity at all. I also invested in the watch business, but before I got the bonus, the company closed down because of poor management; Later, it was invested as a steam pulley, but the institute still failed; He founded his own publishing house, but his life is not long, and he still has a debt of 6.5438+0.6 million yuan; Not only that, he also lost about 200,000 yuan because he invested heavily in the mechanical typesetting company. One day, he met an ape-man named Alexander. Bell, a young inventor, recommended a new invention called telephone to Mark Twain, hoping that Mark would invest. If Bewuer's words are true, you can sit at home and talk to people five blocks away through wires. Yamak Twain shook his head in disbelief and said, "I may be a fool, but I'm not stupid enough to believe that you can talk to people far away from Usland Street by crossing a wire. This is absolutely impossible. " If he had spent 500 yuan to buy shares in the telephone company, the price of monkeys might have risen by tens of millions of yuan now.
But instead of being an investment policeman, he lent a homeless friend 500 yuan, and his friend Cai You declared bankruptcy three days later. Junior 3, 189 When Mark Twain was 58 years old, his turnover was not working because of huge debts. At that time, the prosperity of the whole United States was very bad, and his own physical condition was quite poor. If he declares bankruptcy, he may be able to get rid of those debts, but he is unwilling to take this next step and is determined to pay off these debts at all costs. In addition to continuing to write, it is also talked about all over the world to pay off debts. Originally, he didn't like speech crumbs, and he was sickly. However, in the past five years, he has been giving speeches everywhere to pay off his debts. What's more, every speech he gave was very successful, and no matter how big the venue was, it could not accommodate the surging audience. As expected, he finally paid off all his debts. Mark Twain once wrote: "It's great to finally unload all the heavy spoons and have no worries in my heart." I began to find pleasure in bribing, and realizing it was no longer a job. Hui "He is much luckier in family life than in economy, so before meeting his future wife, he fell in love with her photo at first sight.
He took a boat to the holy land and traveled to Palestine at night. That's what happened. This group trip later became the theme of his book "Don Red Blanket's Overseas Journey". On that fateful day, Mark Twain visited his shipmate Charlie. Chatting with him in the depths of Langdon's cabin, there is a photo of Zhang Lan's little sister-Olivia, a beautiful woman. In Langdon's photos, when Mark first saw her, money decided that she was the ideal object in his mind. During the voyage, he visited Charlie again and again. Jing Langdon's room, staring at Olivia's photo with pious eyes, the more I look at it, the more I think she is the most ideal woman. Two or three months later, when I voted for Mark Twain and returned to new york, I invited Charlie. Langdon invited him to his house to have mushroom rice with his family in previous lives. This is the first time he has met Okun Liwei. In his later years, he recalled: "From the day we first met, Olivia's body and shadow never left my mind." By the way, when it was time to say goodbye to home, Xue couldn't bear to leave the debate like this, so he secretly reminded Langdon's hideous servant of something about the carriage seat, so that he would fall to the ground after sitting on the mat. When the luggage was packed and he shook hands with his master to say goodbye, the coachman's whip waved brilliantly. At the moment when the horse started to run, the seat suddenly fell backwards, and Mark Twain fell to the ground as if he were going to row a boat.
His eyes were closed and the situation seemed quite serious. The Langdon family quickly carried him into the room and let him lie in the guest room. He never left the bed for the next two weeks. But in fact, he was not injured at all. When he fell from the carriage, he gave full play to the tired skills he learned in his hometown when he was a child and skillfully protected his barren body. However, he has been lying in bed, happily receiving the careful care of his sweetheart Olivia. At that time, Olivia called him "Dear Shirt" and he called Olivia "Livy", which lasted until Olivia died 34 years later. Olivia regards the love letter he wrote to her as a treasure and keeps it in the bank every year when she goes to other places for recuperation. Olivia has read every manuscript written by Mark Twain, and my nephew has revised it for him. Before going to bed every night, Mark Tuzawen will definitely put the manuscript written on the day's deliberation on his wife's pillow and let her read it again before going to bed. Olivia deleted the vulgar sentences in the manuscript one by one, hoping that Zhang's works would be perfect. No matter how she modified it, Mark gave birth to Twain and obeyed the state without any objection.
Mark Twain was so afraid that Hua's manuscript would be lost or forgotten that he forbade the frail maid to tidy up his desk, even drew a white line on the ground beside the desk with a stick, and forbade the maid to enter the white line. When he was 70 years old, he thought that Holt should do what he liked at this age, so Coconut ordered a dozen white suits and 100 white ties, all of which were white. He even has a whole white dress. Mark Twain was born in 835 1 year, which is the age when Halley's Comet appeared, but Halley's Comet only appeared once every 76 years. Yao always hoped to live to see Halley's comet again, and he really realized this wish. 19 10 years, on the night when comet Haley died, there was a dog light shining in the night sky. However, his other wish can't come true, that is, when Zhi hopes to die, his daughter Siji can sing his favorite Su Shi Greencourt folk song for him, but her daughter died before Tao He. Bowl He asked someone to carve the following four lines on Siggy's tombstone, and for the American people who love to catch him, these four lines are just right on Mark Utwin's tombstone. Warm summer sun, gently cut this grave! The warm south wind blows the grave warm and respectfully! The green grass is growing gently. Goodbye, Alice, my beloved child! Goodbye! See you on cereal! [Note-As a great humorist, Mark Suo Twain left many meaningful sayings, such as "To live a life that even the funeral and rehabilitation society will be sad after death." Gong, "We should thank those fools who rest in society, because we can barely make ends meet, because we have the blessings of other officials." MarkTw tweezers ain( 1835— 19 and 10)]