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Editorial Reviews. From School Library Journal. Gr 5 Up-While Mark Twain is most often identified with his childhood home on the Mississippi, he wrote many of.
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Hank is captured, but he and Arthur are rescued by a party of knights led by Lancelot , riding bicycles. Then, the king becomes extremely bitter against slavery and vows to abolish it when they get free, much to Hank's delight. Sagramore returns from his quest and fights Hank, who defeats him and seven others, including Galahad and Lancelot, using a lasso.
When Merlin steals Hank's lasso, Sagramore returns to challenge him again. This time, Hank kills him with a revolver. He proceeds to challenge the knights of England to attack him en masse, which they do. After he kills nine more knights with his revolvers, the rest break and flee. The next day, Hank reveals his 19th-century infrastructure to the country.
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With that fact, he was called a wizard since he told Clarence to do so as well. Three years later, Hank has married Sandy, and they have a baby. While asleep and dreaming, Hank says, "Hello-Central", a reference to calling a 19th-century telephone operator, and Sandy believes that the mystic phrase to be the name of a former girlfriend or lover and thus to please him names their child accordingly.
However, the baby falls critically ill, and Hank's doctors advise him to take his family overseas while the baby recovers. In reality, it is a ploy by the Catholic Church to get Hank out of the country to leave it without effective leadership. During the weeks that Hank is absent, Arthur discovers Guinevere 's infidelity with Lancelot. That causes a war between Lancelot and Arthur, who is eventually killed by Sir Mordred.
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The church then places the land under interdict , causing all people to break away from Hank and revolt. Hank sees that something is wrong by the lack of trade in the English Channel , and returns to England to meet with his good friend Clarence who informs him of the war thus far. As time goes on, Clarence gathers 52 young cadets, aged from 14 to 17, who are to fight against all of England. Hank's band fortifies itself in Merlin's Cave with a minefield, electric wire and Gatling guns. The Catholic Church sends an army of 30, knights to attack them, but they are slaughtered by the cadets wielding Hank's modern weaponry.
However, Hank's men are now trapped in the cave by a wall of dead bodies and sickened by the miasma bred by thousands of corpses. Hank attempts to go offer aid to any wounded, but is stabbed by the first wounded man he tries to help, Sir Meliagraunce. He is not seriously injured but is bedridden. Disease begins to set in. One night, Clarence finds Merlin weaving a spell over Hank, proclaiming that he will sleep for 1, years.
Merlin begins laughing deliriously but ends up electrocuting himself on one of the electric wires. Clarence and the others all apparently die from disease in the cave. More than a millennium later, the narrator finishes the manuscript and finds Hank on his deathbed and dreaming about Sandy. He attempts to make one last "effect" but dies before he can finish it. Twain first conceived of the idea behind A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court in December and worked on it between and The book pokes fun at contemporary society, but the main thrust is a satire of romanticized ideas of chivalry , and of the idealization of the Middle Ages common in the novels of Sir Walter Scott and other 19th-century literature.
Twain had a particular dislike for Scott, blaming his kind of romanticizing of battle for the southern states ' deciding to fight the American Civil War. He writes in Life on the Mississippi :. It was Sir Walter that made every gentleman in the South a Major or a Colonel, or a General or a Judge, before the war; and it was he, also, that made these gentlemen value these bogus decorations. For it was he that created rank and caste down there, and also reverence for rank and caste, and pride and pleasure in them. For example, the book portrays the medieval people as being very gullible, as when Merlin makes a "veil of invisibility" which, according to him, will make the wearer imperceptible to his enemies, though friends can still see him.
The knight Sir Sagramor wears it to fight Hank, who pretends that he cannot see Sagramor for effect to the audience. Hank Morgan's opinions are also strongly denunciatory towards the Catholic Church of the medieval period; the Church is seen by the Yankee as an oppressive institution that stifles science and teaches peasants meekness only as a means of preventing the overthrow of Church rule and taxation. The book also contains many depictions and condemnations of the dangers of superstition and the horrors of medieval slavery.
It is possible to see the book as an important transitional work for Twain, in that earlier, sunnier passages recall the frontier humor of his tall tales such as The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County , while the corrosive view of human behavior in the apocalyptic latter chapters is more akin to darker, later Twain works such as The Mysterious Stranger and Letters from the Earth.
George Hardy notes, "The final scenes of 'Connecticut Yankee' depict a mass horse attempting to storm a position defended by wire and machine guns—and getting massacred, none reaching their objective. Deduct the fantasy anachronism of the assailants being Medieval knights, and you get a chillingly accurate prediction of a typical First World War battle The modern soldiers of with their bayonets had no more chance to win such a fight than Twain's knights".
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One frequently overlooked aspect of the book is the emotional intensity felt by Hank towards his family: wife Sandy and baby Hello-Central. Twain's own son, Langdon, died of diphtheria at the age of 19 months, which was likely reflected in Hello-Central's membranous croup.
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Twain also outlived two of his three daughters, but they both died after the completion of "Yankee. While Connecticut Yankee is sometimes credited as the foundational work in the time travel subgenre of science fiction , Twain's novel had several important immediate predecessors. Among them are H. Also published the year before Connecticut Yankee was Edward Bellamy 's wildly popular Looking Backward , in which the protagonist is put into a hypnosis-induced sleep and wakes up in the year In this novel, a technically proficient American is shipwrecked on an island that broke off from Britain during Arthurian times, and never developed any further.
Since the beginning of the 20th century, this famous story has been adapted many times for the stage, feature-length motion pictures , and animated cartoons. The earliest film version was Fox 's silent version. The story was adapted as an hour-long radio play on the October 5, , broadcast of the Ford Theatre , starring Karl Swenson.
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In , Tennessee Ernie Ford starred in a television adaptation. In , the book was adapted into a minute animated TV special directed by Zoran Janjic with Orson Bean as the voice of the title character. More recently it was adapted into a television film by Paul Zindel which starred Keshia Knight Pulliam. A Knight for a Day is a Disney short film starring Goofy that is loosely inspired by the novel. Army of Darkness drew many inspirations from the novel. The film Black Knight similarly transports a modern-day American to Medieval England while adding racial element to the time-traveler plotline.
The quotation " 'Bridgeport? In humorous Monday Begins on Saturday Merlin's character is taken entirely from the Mark Twain's book, and he often references it. Hard to Be a God is essentially a remake of "Yankee," concentrating on the moral and ethical questions of "civilizing the uncivilized. However, he returns to his home land after the casting of the Dark Curse, which whisks him to Storybrooke. Owen , Hank appears in several books as a time-travelling "Messenger" recruited by Mark Twain.
Hank is able to travel through time and space at will using an enchanted pocketwatch, which eventually suffers a malfunction that strands him in the time stream. Sandy and Hello-Central are not mentioned in the series. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Novel by Mark Twain. Novels portal Connecticut portal. He attracted me by three things: his candid simplicity, his marvelous familiarity with ancient armor, and the restfulness of his company.
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Mark Twain. Is He Dead? In the book, a Yankee engineer from Connecticut is accidentally transported back in time to the court of King Arthur, where he fools the inhabitants of that time into thinking that he is a magician, and soon uses his knowledge of modern technology to become a "magician" in earnest, stunning the English of the Early Middle Ages with such feats as demolitions, fireworks, and the shoring up of a holy well. He attempts to modernize the past, but in the end he is unable to prevent the death of Arthur and an interdict against him by the Catholic Church of the time, which grows fearful of his power.
Twain wrote the book as a burlesque of Romantic notions of chivalry after being inspired by a dream in which he was a knight himself, severely inconvenienced by the weight and cumbersome nature of his armor.
This novel tells the story of Hank Morgan, the quintessential self-reliant New Englander who brings to King Arthur's Age of Chivalry the "great and beneficent" miracles of nineteenth-century engineering and American ingenuity. Through the collision of past and present, Twain exposes the insubstantiality of both utopias, destroying the myth of the romantic ideal as well as his own era's faith in scientific and social progress.
A central document in American intellectual history, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is at once a hilarious comedy of anachronisms and incongruities, a romantic fantasy, a utopian vision, and a savage, anarchic social satire that only one of America's greatest writers could pen. Convert currency. Add to Basket. Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory S More information about this seller Contact this seller. Looks like an interesting title!.