Throughout this novel the author used satire elements to create an emotional response from the reader. By using these elements the foolishness of society with many of its individuals is revealed by irony, humor, and the exaggeration the author has placed to impact the reader of the reality of many of the circumstances in relation to the world. Judge Thatcher took the responsibility of handling all of Finn’s six thousand dollars to assure he wouldn’t spend it all. Finn’s dad is a drunk who only wants Finn under his custody to receive his money for alcohol. When he doesn’t find the money with Finn he charges at Judge Thatcher while he is drunk and threatens him to summit the money or else face the law.“ The Judge and the widow went to law to get to the court to take me away from him and let one of them be my guardian; but it was a new judge that has just come, and he didn’t know the old man; so he said to the courts mustn't interfere and separate families if they could help it; said he’d druther not to take a child away from its father.”(Twain 22) Under the law system the new judge gave Finn’s father the custody only for being his biological father however he didn’t …show more content…
What is amusing about this war is how both families are willingly shooting at each other without a reason on how it started just for the reason of the feud they continue on killing. “Did you want to kill him Buck?” “Well, I bet I did.” “ What did he do to you?” “Him? He never done nothing to me.” “Well, then what did you want to kill him for?” Why, nothing- only it’s on account of the feud.”(104) Instead of sparing the lives of their family members they would still pursue their enemy targets on the behalf of the feud. It will be until the very end when everyone involved in this feud will see how pointless their misunderstanding was at the moment the fatalities are too much to