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MARK TWAIN 1835-1910: THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER

 

The author spent his childhood* in a little town next to the river Mississipi, and

he left school when he was 12 years old. He was a typographer*, a steamboat pilot, and a gold* digger, before becoming the most famous American writer of this time.  

Going west: 

In the spring of 1835m in a modest house in a little town next to the river Salt, in the state of Missouri, a little boy was born. His parents, John and Jane Clemens, called him Samuel; it was their fifth child. the Clemens family had emigrated from the state of Tennessee hoping to start a new life in the West. Like many other thousands of Americans at that time, they had travelled to the "frontier*", on the border* of "civilised" America, and they had entered the great unknown* territories. 

All the pioneers* dreamt of colonizing the plains*, the mountains and the woods* of the West, where the Indians still lived in freedom*. 

Vocabulary: 

-border: límit, frontera  -pioneer: pioner

-childhood: infancia       -plain: llanura

-freedom: llibertat         -streamboat: barco de vapor

-frontier: frontera          -typograper: tipógraf

-gold digger: buscador d'or   -unknown: desconegut

-great: gran                    -wood: bosc.

Mark Twain

The adventures of Tom Sawyer: By Mark Twain