Twain's Satire Through The Eyes of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain, the author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, used satire in order to criticize and unmask certain topics, more specifically American society. In this novel, a young boy named Huckleberry Finn was thrown into a situation where he had to fend for himself but learned a lot on the journey. He went from living with Miss Watson, a widow, to living out on a boat with Jim, the widow's runaway slave, and two frauds who said they were a king and a duke. He faced many problems along the way but never resorted to violence when coming up with a plan or solution. Huck's character was who Twain used to show the reader what type of a world they are living in and all of it's flaws. He used …show more content…
Jim, Miss Watson's slave, ran away in an attempt to escape and become a free man. On his journey to achieving that title, Huckleberry Finn and Jim cross paths. Huck had grown up surrounded by people who lived by racism so that was all he knew. He truly believed that Jim was somehow different because of the color of his skin, but that is what he was raised learning. Once they had crossed paths and decided to continue their journey together, he eventually learns that Jim is not who he thought he was. Huck came to a realization that there are slaves who are genuinely good people, one of them being Jim. He was always excited to …show more content…
He wanted to introduce the idea of inhumanity that is found so often in that time period's society and bring it to the surface. People let little problems last ages instead of putting them to an end. For example, the Grandfords and the Shepherdson's family feud had been going on for decades. So many lives were being lost and so much harm was being done. Humanity has a problem with admitting their defeat or that they were wrong. Neither family wanted to give up and take surrender, they wanted to keep fighting even though no progress was being made. The fighting had been going on for so long that they could not remember the reason behind why they were fighting in the first place. "'What did he do to you?' 'Him? He never done nothing to me'" (Twain 118). This was a conversation between Huck and Buck, a Grangerford. Buck was so determined to bring harm to the Shepherdson's; however, he does not have any reasoning behind it. In today's society that is considered to be holding a grudge. It is like they forgot why they were mad but continued to feel and act upon the emotion