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Examples Of Satire In Huckleberry Finn

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Morals are a part of everyday lifestyle. Authors use their novels to express their opinions different morals. Some people present morals in different ways. Several views of morality have been introduced in the novel Huckleberry Finn, Twain values some views more than others, such as; morales the developpe from experience, morals learn from guardians and morals from god. To convey these views he uses satire, diction and imagery as a way to present these sources of morality. Twain uses a lot of satire to make people understand his points. People are more interested in comedy rather than seriousness and by Twain using satire people see the point. Also, it is used to not be so harsh on the subject, when you joke about something it sounds a lot …show more content…

hey might not know they influence him but they do. Miss Watson uses the n word and it becomes a part of Huck's vocabulary Page 3 Twain uses diction to prove this view of morality because that word was a part of everyone's vocabulary at the time. Huck may have known the word before but Miss Watson and Widow Douglas are just prolonging it and making it seem likes it's alright. They’re not teaching him that it's not good and they're still promoting it. Huck is picking up the language of his guardians and of everyone around him. Huck doesn’t exactly know what the word means and how hurtful it is but he still says it because everyone else does. Pap is also giving Huck bad habits and morals. He’s one of the worst people Huck has gotten his values from. For example, Page 19,21 and 23, show that Huck is not actually wanted and pap is using him for the money. From a kid's point of view they should be happy to go live with their significant other but pap isn’t treating him well. He’s teaching Huck that school is not important and that it’s okay to smoke. pap is teaching him to be more independant too soon. Having independance when you're older is a great thing but not so much when you're still a child. Not putting Huck in school was a bad mistake because pap is teaching him that quitting things are okay when it’s not. Also, pap is teaching Huck that you shouldn’t want the best for your family because he wanted …show more content…

At that time people wanted to believe in greater people and a place to go after death because not a lot of people lived for a long time, due to illnesses etc. People started to believe in a religion to have hope. Most people started to get morals from practicing the religion because they were so into it. Miss Watson is one of those people, we see that Twain makes this satirical, Miss Watson says that if Huck does bad practices ,such as slouching and smoking, he’ll go to the bad place. Widow Douglas tries to approach Huck in a better way with telling Huck about stories that would interest a young boy. Widow Douglas isn’t forcing it on him and isn't trying to use religion to get him to do things that Miss Watson wants him to do.(Twain Page 2).”After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers…” (Twain 2). Widow Douglas is still trying to make Huck learn about religion and just have a common knowledge on it but she’s not scaring him with it like Miss Watson. Huck thinks that what he did is against god and every bad thing that happens is because god is punishing him. (Twain Chapter 31). Twain makes this satirical by making Miss Watson try to teach Huck about religion when he’s a kid. Also, he makes them seem so uneducated. “ You couldn’t make out what the preacher said any more, on the accountant of shouting and crying. Folks got up everywheres in

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I think Huck is easily sucked back into his father's life and his games only because he is his father and believes he has to. I also think Huck kind of feels sorry for Pap because Huck is finally turning his life around, thanks to the widow, and Pap is still the daily town drunk who gets arrested for being too drunk. 4. Why does Pap yell at Huck for becoming civilized? Is he right?

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While the 1840s was obviously a period with a culture of racism, that racism was paired with an enormous religious culture. This time period comes at the end of the Second Great Awakening, a Protestant revival movement that swept the country, pushing for strong religious morality to prepare for the second coming of Christ. While Huck is with the Widow, he gets a different sort of education. The Widow and her sister, Miss Watson, are wealthy, proper and intensely religious, irreconcilable with Pap. Huck describes living in the Widow’s house, “She worked me middling hard for about an hour [with a spelling book]…Then for an hour it was deadly dull, and I was fidgety.

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Huck does not conform to the ways of the people he is around. If he is around someone who believes something and they try to get him to believe in it to he will not believe in it unless he sees that it is right. For example, when Mrs. Watson was teaching Huck about religion and God Huck did not want to believe it because Mrs. Watson believed in it and he

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In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain criticizes religion by using details and irony throughout various episodes. These episodes vary from Huck speaking with the Miss Watson, to speaking with himself, to speaking with Pap, and him going to church on multiple occasions. The first example of Twain’s criticism of religion appears when the Miss Watson is attempting to teach Huck about Moses. She goes into detail about who Moses was, what he did, and why he is important. Huck’s response is that Moses had been “dead a long time” and that he “didn’t care…because I don’t take no stock in dead people”(14).

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I’ve seen it in books”(8-9). Twain satirize is romanticism in him naming the wrecked ship, “Walter Scott” who was a romantic poet, thus relating romanticism to things like tragedy. He is comparing romance to bad endings where romance usually has to do with beautiful things like love. Huck is always being told to pray everyday and be proper. Miss Watson tries to teach Huck about religion and how to be polite and

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Watson does which could be symbolic towards how Mark Twain feels about religion. This goes with the quote earlier from Twain about how he doesn’t put much stock into his god Moreover there's more that shows Twain's viewpoints is when Huck states "Then she would tell me about the bad place, and I would say how I wished I was there." (Twain 2) this furthermore goes along with the idea that Huck is a symbol of Mark Twain with Huck's sarcasm towards Mrs. Watson who he doesn’t like whatsoever. With Twain's obvious displease of organized religion, it shows how he could've attacked towards the idea of religion Similarly later in the novel when we meet the con-men known as the King and Duke they persuade a town that is very religious to "help them convert Huck and Jim" who they say are pirates.

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Throughout Huck’s adventures, he is put in numerous situations where he must depend on himself, and use his own judgment to make fundamental decisions that will later have an affect on his life. Growing up, Huck has always been considered an outcast amongst all his peers and in society as a whole. Consistently throughout the book, all the people he is forced to live with try to change him. Prior to the start of the novel, Miss Watson and Widow Douglas have been granted legal custody of Huck, who views him as an uncivilized boy who possesses no morals. Huck explains in the opening chapter, “The Widow Douglas, she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me”(Twain 1).

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But when Pap disappears, the Widow Douglas and Miss Watson take Huck in and attempt to civilize him by giving him new, clean clothes, teaching him to read and write, and teaching him manners. Huck’s immaturity is evident in the beginning of the story with accounts of Huck’s shenanigans with Tom. He ruins his fresh clothes, sneaks out at night, gets in fights, joins a “robber gang”, and goes on adventures with his friends. His actions show that his morals aren't present and he could care less about trying to do the right thing and be a good boy for the Widow and Miss Watson.

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Early on in the novel, Twain makes a mockery of how impractical religion is. Expressed through the eyes of Huckleberry Finn, Huckleberry Finn defiantly disagrees with Miss Watson and Widow Douglas about the concepts of religion. He actively scoffs at Widow Douglas’ devotion to God for “she got out her book and learned [Huck] about Moses … but by-and-by she let out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then [Huck] didn’t care no more about him; because [Huck] don’t take no stock in dead people” (2). Huck Finn’s pragmatism takes Widow Douglas’ pious teachings and throws them out the window. In fact, he completely disregards and does not even consider the potential benefits of what

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