Huckleberry Finn Satire

The Author Mark Twain is well known for his use of satire in his works to poke fun at current events in his time that can still relate to present day. In this particular book, Huckleberry Finn Twain uses the theme of gun and weapon violence in his satire.

Huckleberry Finn uses satire of gun and weapon violence in many instances one of which is when Huck uses the gun against his father when he becomes drunken and crazed and was chasing Huck with a knife. (Twain 22). “By-and-by he rolled out and jumped up on his feet looking wind, and he se me and went for me. He chased me round and round the place, with a clasp-knife." This shows how weapons pose a problem in an everyday scenario such as this when a parent is under the influence and may

This is when both families are at church and the preacher gave a sermon about brotherly love and being good to one another while they all had gun-in-hand ready to shoot at one another and, afterwards everyone said it was a good sermon. "The men took their guns along, so did Buck, and kept them between their knees or stood them handy against the wall. The Shepherdsons done the same. It was pretty ornery preaching—all about brotherly love, and such-like tiresomeness; but everybody said it was a good sermon." (Twain 83). This is satirized by the fact that it brings humor to the situation because the sermon was exactly the opposite of what was really thought by the families and how they acted. Another example relating to this satire of gun and weapon violence is in the movie Tropic Thunder when Ben Stiller's character in the movie in the movie being made in the movie gets his hands blown off, this is satirized because of how is hands are made to look and how the actors are performing. Both Ben Stiller's and Robert Downey Jr's. characters are supposed to look idiotic in this scene. They look so because they are crying, and drooling and the whole scene just pokes fun at all the violence in the movie especially due to the movie being about war. (Tropic