Examples Of Satire In Huckleberry Finn

Satire Satire is often used to make comedy out of serious topics and make them easier to read. Twain used the same approach in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Satire is used by authors in order to believe a point that they are making about a certain topic. Neill Blomkamp stated, “Satire allows you to make fun of every different aspect. It allows you to make fun of both sides. It allows you to make fun of everything, really, so you can do it in a harmless way.” This quote explains how satire is supposed to be found comical but also discussing serious topics that need to be discussed and approached with an open mind about both sides of a topic. Satire has three audiences- those who agree, those who the author are ridiculing, and those who

The feud between the two families had been going on for a long period of time and as time went by no one truly remembered what the feud was about. It is made apparent how much these two families hate each other but every Sunday, they all go to the same church. The men from both sides would take their guns and keep them by them at all times. Twain satirizes human nature by these two feuding families because people will fight without truly known why they are fighting. However, there is always one place where people can come together and there will be peace and church was that place for these two families. Twain satirizes how important religion was for people during this time period and how human nature overpowers the ability to think

Through Jim, an African American slave, and the issues Huck faced internally throughout the whole book, Twain makes fun of slavery and expresses the way people treated slaves was wrong. Miss Watson is said to be a good Christian woman and she expresses her beliefs strongly on other people, but she was the slave owner of Jim for a long period of time until he ran away when he heard Miss Watson was planning on selling him in order to make some money. Twain uses satire to show how a supposed "good Christian woman" is not necessarily that because she owned a slave. Miss Watson expresses herself as a superior figure but she owned a slave just like every other person. Huck was struggling internally for a long time throughout the novel because he was not sure whether or not he should listen to what society said about African Americans or is he should be his own person and believe what he wanted to. This also ties into the mob mentality idea because people may not have even known why they were racist but they just went along with what everyone else was saying because that is all they knew. Once Huck realized that he no longer wanted to be apart of the beliefs that everyone else had he stated, ¨All right then, I’ll go to hell”—and tore it up” (chapter 31). In this quote, Huck had written a letter to Miss Watson telling her where Jim was and he finally solved the