In Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain used satire to ridicule different aspects of American society during that time. This satire allowed for a humorous take on major events through the eyes of the author. To start off, the family feud between the Shepherdsons and the Grangerfords represented the foolish behavior of the North and South during the Civil War. Next, Mark Twain mocked slavery and anyone who condones it, such as Miss Watson. Lastly, the fact that the towns people would rather blame a black man for the supposive death of Huckleberry then a white man. Therefore, Mark Twain used an exorbitant amount of satire in his novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
First off, the Shepherdsons and the Grangerford's family feud made a mockery of the fighting between people of the North and the South. "It started thirty years ago, or som'ers
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People at this point in time believed that blacks were the root of all evil and that whites, people of their own kind, could do no harm. "Some think old Finn done it himself." "Most everybody thought it at first. He'll never know how nigh he come to getting lynched. But before night they changed around and judged it was done by a runaway nigger named Jim" (Twain 67). Townspeople blamed Jim for Hucks death when he barely knew Huckleberry at all and would therefore have no real motive for harming him. The only connection between Huck and Jim, as far as the townspeople were concerned, was that Jim ran away the night of Huck's murder. The obvious answer to who murdered Huck would be his alcoholic, abusive father Pap. However people jumped at the chance to blame a black man due to a silly coincidence. Twain showed readers how pathetic people were back then since they believed that whites were superior to blacks and could do no wrong. To sum up, Mark Twain displays how unfair people were to blacks during the