ark Twain's, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is a thrilling novel of a young boy who embarks on a journey which will open up his mind and make him more mature as the story moves along. In the novel, Mark Twain uses satire as a way to provoke his criticisms of American society. Satire can be many things, humor, irony, exaggerations, and Twain uses all forms to get points across in the novel. Many times throughout the novel he uses humor to bring social institutions into play, religion, family, and education. Huck, the main character, is highly influenced by two separate groups, while also making his own decisions and his own beliefs. The novel is full of twists and turns where Huck will have to make his own decisions and learn what right and wrong is. He is not bonded to one specific institution, so he freely makes his decisions. Being a young boy, facing the world and all of its problems is an intimidating feeling, …show more content…
Twain's use of humor brings out criticisms on American society.
Introduced to the characters, Twain uses humor to describe their social classes and standing in education, not to shame upon them, but to bring fourth it in a different approach. Huck is in one of the lower social classes, it is shown by his education, and speech. "I had been to school most all the time and could spell and read and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five" (Twain 25). He puts humor in the fact that Huck thinks that six times seven is thirty-five, when it is really forty-two. It shows how lacking he is of education, and Twain decided to show it through a glimmer of a small mathematical mistake. Also, while Huck is chatting with Jim, a run-away slave