Twain's racial tone was not perfect.One is left uneasy,for example,by the lengthy passage in his autobiography(自传)about how much he loved what were called“nigger shows”in his youth—mostly with white men performing in blackface—and his delight in getting his mother to laugh at them.Yet there is no reason to think Twain saw the shows as representing reality.His frequent attacks on slavery and prejudice suggest his keen awareness that they did not.
Was Twain a racist?Asking the question in the 21st century is as wise as asking the same of Lincoln.If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the“wisdom”of the considered moral judgments of the present,we will find nothing but error.Lincoln,who believed the black man the inferior of the white,fought and won a war to free him.And Twain,raised in a slave state,briefly a soldier,and inventor of Jim,may have done more to anger the nation over racial injustice and awaken its collective conscience than any other novelist in the past century.
【语篇解读】 通过研究马克·吐温的作品,来判定他是否是一名种族主义者。作者列举了大量事实,说明了马克·吐温是名反对种族主义的斗士,反驳了别人那些错误的观点。
18.How do Twain's novels on slavery differ from Stowe's?
A.Twain was more willng to deal with racism.
B.Twain's attack on racism was much less open.
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