Mark Twain presented the 19th-century America in his own unique way. Discuss Twain’s art of fiction: the setting, the language, and the characters, etc., based on his novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
参考答案：A. Mark Twain used the Mississippi valley as his fictional kingdom, writing about the landscape and people, the customs and the dialects of one particular region, and is therefore known as a local colorist.
B. He creates life-like characters, especially the uncoventional Huckleberry Finn, who runs away from civilization and stands opposite to conventional village morality.
C. He uses a simple, direct vernacular language, totally different from any precious literary language. It is the kind of colloquial language belonging to the lower class, the living local American English.
D. He has created a special humor to satirize social injustices and the decayed convention.