The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn In the book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck is very ironic. Irony is shown throughout the whole book. Twain uses irony right from the beginning of the book when the main character Huck says “living in a house and sleeping in a bed pulled on me tightly… I used to slide out and sleep in the woods sometimes, and so that was rest to me” (Twain 27). Twain also uses irony to be humorous. Normally when people think of sleeping comfortably they think of a bed, but when Huck wants to find comfort he goes to sleep outside, which is very ironic. Even though the widow Douglas is not mentioned a lot in the book, speaks about her in such a way that seemed heartwarming to me ‘‘The widow Douglas she took me for her son and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time...’’ (Twain 12). The widow Douglas was very conservative, but the way she lived was very ironic to me. Not only did she own slaves, but with her also being a Christian, it was consider wrong. Twain includes this in the book to add more irony and show us how insane it is to contradict yourself. …show more content…
Instead of congratulating his son like any other father would he says, “You think you’re better than your father, now, dont you, because he can’t?” (Twain 28). No normal, sane headed father would think to talk like that to their son. Its really ironic because a normal father would be happy that his son could finally read and write, but he was the complete