Theme Of Irony In Huckleberry Finn

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The numerous examples of satire and irony provided in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the reason I selected this as the topic for my essay. The examples I have included below all tie together to give the book an overall theme of Jealousy. For the duration of your whole life, everyone is jealous of at least one person in their life at one time for numerous reason that will vary person to person. Whether it's jealousy of appearance, money, experiences, education, jobs, friendship, excetera everyone will end up longing for something someone else has that you lack. You could be jealous of someone's wealth and one day go on to win the lottery which would also include the irony of the situation because of your previous statements

The setting in this book is somewhere around 1835 to 1845 so blacks were still minorities to whites. The majority if not all blacks were slaves working for white people. They had many more regulations than whites did that followed with strict deadly consequences. White supremacist were even killing blacks because of their physical appearances and cultural differences. In this novel, Jim is talking about how if he runs away he would be a free man. He wouldn't be a slave anymore which is very rare for african american people at this point in history. Jim tells Huck "I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars."(47) He says this because he overhears Miss Watson mentioning she was going to sell him for $800. So if he ran away he would be considered a free man and also a ‘rich’ man because he is worth $800. Because he runs away he is already considered a free

The irony that Pap is furious of Huck's new glorified social upstanding along with the money he has run into makes Pap jealous huck has a better life than he had. It's also ironic that pap did not get educated, and that huck is utilizing his education experience to his advantage to make his dad jealous. Growing up black in this time period meant you were going to become a slave. Jim was jealous of Huck for getting an education and being able to do whatever he wants, so when Jim finally decides to run away it's ironic that he was jealous that Huck was free and he wasn’t when he could have been this whole time; that's how this example fit in with the theme of jealousy. This book helped me understand how longing for something you don't have could affect your relationships and corrupt your views on people. I have worked very hard on this paper to perfect it, as shown above; this explains why you should give me an A on this essay. Please and thank