Analysis Of Mark Twain 's The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer As Well

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer appears in St Petersburg and at the Phelps’ farm as Huck Finn’s companion. Though Tom serves as Huck’s partner-in-crime of sorts, the two boys contrast in crucial perceptual and behavioral aspects: where Tom possesses a love for romanticism and a strict policy of adherence to societal conventions and codes, Huck possesses a skeptical sort of personality in which he tends to perceive society’s infatuations as frivolous. Tom’s presence represents an overlying trend in behavior for Mark Twain’s era wherein individuals adhere to an idealistic social code that justifies the subjugation of others for the entertainment of the privileged populus. In this regionalist critical novel, Mark Twain uses Tom Sawyer as a vehicle to reveal the dangers of an idealistic society and how idealism leads to society rationalizing its day-to-day standards; thereby, its idealism serves to hide the questionable moral behaviors prevalent in Twain’s era.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is a story of a young, mischievous boy who did not like punishment, school, or church. Tom Sawyer had learned a lot and had matured a lot by the end of the book. As a reader reads this book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer he will see that Tom Sawyer gets into a lot of trouble. Through this paper I hope to teach you that Tom Sawyer grew out of his mischievous ways eventually.

The dissection of the immorality of society is further explored in Tom Sawyer’s scheme to free Jim from the Phelpses’ captivity. Tom, seemingly eager to help Jim escape, creates a plan that seems to exist more for his own amusement than for Jim’s emancipation, a plan that eventually ends in Jim’s recapture and Tom’s injury. Thus, Tom’s plan to free Jim takes on a dark irony as Huck says that Tom is “not mean, but kind”; this is subverted when we discover that Tom has used Jim as a plaything in his game of escape (Evans). Tom and Huck, both boys of about the same age and with similar backgrounds, are a good example of the difference that “sivilized” society makes on the development of the individual. As Tom and Huck plan Jim’s escape, the two represent very different places in their development as individuals; Huck having discovered a new morality through his journey down the Mississippi, and Tom having remained more or less the same as his introduction at the beginning of the novel. While Huck has demonstrated his ability to more fully realize individuals, notably Jim, Tom has been conditioned by society to see slaves as subhuman, and thus has no problem with using Jim as a plaything in his game of adventure. This trivialization of human life, presented by the “civilized” and “kind” Tom, demonstrates the immorality and toxicity of Southern society. Twain also comments on the hypocrisy

Oppression has been a problem in this country, dating all the way back to the Europeans traveling to the New World, and forcing themselves on the Native’s and famously the British oppression of the thirteen colonies. Oppression is still a serious problem today, with almost all minorities, such as women, African-Americans, and the LGBT community feeling it’s pressure. Although these groups have gained seen many changes in their freedom, they are still being oppressed. Oppression is a common theme throughout American Literature, weaving in and out of many that are seen as classic American novels and poetry. Some of these books include Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the poetry of Langston Hughes, Richard Wright’s Native Son and Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon. The form of oppression that is evident throughout all these works, is racial oppression, and narrowing it down even further, the oppression of African Americans.

Twain uses a boy and a runaway slave in, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, to not only tell a story, but to express what he thinks are the problems of civilized society. Satire is the key tool in which he uses to demonstrate these problems. Through Twain's use of satire, we can not only poke fun at American society, but we can learn from its mistakes. Twain

In the novel, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” by Mark Twain, Twain expressed his theories of society in a way that was individual to him. Mark Twain used an episodic structure to demonstrate the life experiences, the main character, Huck Finn goes through. Each episode has a unique way of demonstrating a use of satire that is then used to make fun of a problem present in Huck’s society. Twain attempted to make points in hopes of changing the future. Many of the characters were influenced by Twains satiric nature.

Mark Twain purposely had satire put is his book “Huck Finn”, to show all the faults society has at this time. Mark Twain has satire, mostly on about human greed and violence. He shows this by everyday human interaction and people do to others. Also, people can be selfish because they scammed or something bad happened. They had to let others be affected to because they wanted them to suffer too. Satire in “Huck Finn” was meant to show the faults of society during this and how people can be selfish and really violent.

"I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippo-will and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die; and the wind was trying to whisper something to me, and I couldn't make out what it was" (Twain 13). Twain often ridicules American society in the early 1800's. He pokes fun at various subjects throughout the novel, such as human brutality, women's roles in society, and slavery within christianity. Satire plays a major role in Mark Twain's classic novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

In "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," Mark Twain uses satire to mock many different aspects of the modern world. Throughout his trip down the Mississippi, and even prior to leaving St. Petersburg, Huck encounters a variety of people and situations that are designed to scoff at the American people. Twain employs satire in order to criticize human behavior in society, demonstrating societal hypocrisy and just how easily people conform to mob mentality.

We all struggle to fight against society’s rules. Whether it’s getting up to go to school or obeying a curfew, in some way we all rebel against the expectations of our society. In Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, there is an overwhelming battle against society, especially through its main character, Huckleberry Finn. Though he knows in his heart what he is doing is right, everyone says that he deserves to go to hell for his action.

In the novel the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn written by Mark Twain, satires are used as a way of demonstrating criticism towards the American society. Twain includes the criticism to keep the reader's attention as well as tell a story about America in this time period. This story is looked at as a humorous novel from afar but it has underlying meanings. The main areas criticized in the novel are religion, family feuds, education, and superstition.

Mark Twain was an avid user of satire. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a prime example of his humor and mockery. He used sentimentality and gullibility as well as needless bloodshed to intrigue and influence his audience. Twain satirized modern situations such as religious dogma and the average man or society in general. The audience has the ability to connect the different themes of satire within their own lives, even today, because of the timeless humor. The audience can also interpret the novel in many ways and choose whether or not to listen to Twain. Satire brings about the morals and lessons in Twain’s writing and allows the audience to be influenced by the literature.

In his novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain takes the reader through the wild and tumultuous antebellum south as a companion of Huckleberry Finn, a rowdy twelve year old boy. Throughout the novel Mark Twain invokes a sense of humor; the constant joking and slapstick quality of the novel entertains and invites the reader into the small towns and farms that peppered the 1830s south, and to dive into the river with Huck. Twain utilizes humor not only to captivate the reader, but to also provoke thoughtful laughter, and to lead the reader into realizing the problems within Huck’s society. Mark Twain uses irony, and malapropisms to display the backwards nature of royalty, religion, and the law, and to allude to the greater meaning

Throughout the evolution of the world’s societies, the roles of women seem to act as a reflection of the time period since they set the tones for the next generation. Regardless of their own actions, women generally appear to take on a lower social standing and receive an altered treatment by men. In Mark Twain’s pre-civil war novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, lies a display of how society treats and views women, as well as how they function in their roles, specifically in regards to religion and molding the minds and futures of children. The novel’s showcase of women affords them a platform and opportunity to better see their own situation and break away with a new voice.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (published in 1885), considered a classic of American-literature, and to some the zenith of American realism in literature and the apex of satirical writing in history, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has proven itself as a milestone in the history of literature and a turning point in American literature. The garnering of such acclaim, and accolades were due to The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn possibly being the most poignant and successful critique on society every put into writing. Twain does not waste any time with sophomoric cant in his meditation, but instead critiques the inherent cant present in society and the people entertaining this cant throughout that time; showing