Examples Of Satire In Huckleberry Finn

This is exactly the kind of behavior that twain didn’t like. However, the main theme in this book is breaking free. He urges his readers to do the right thing, not necessarily what everyone else is doing. He illustrates this ideal with Huck. Most everyone else thought of Jim, along with blacks in general, as something less than human. Huck knew this was wrong, and his actions followed this when he rescued Jim. Main characters Huckleberry Finn Huck is the narrator of the story and for the most part is honest to us, the readers. He dreads the rules and conformities of society such as religion, school, and everything else that will eventually make him civilized. A big debate surrounds Huck on whether he changes or not throughout the story. Huck, in the beginning, seems very set in the south’s anti-black ways, however, Huck states that he will go to hell to keep Jim out of slavery. At this point it seems like he does change, but at the end of the book, Huck plays yet another joke on Jim and seems as though any change was temporary. Huck has little sense of humor, which is ironical, considering the book is satirical. Twain has also been criticized about Huck’s character, in that it seems as though Huck knows too much for his age. In one of the movies Huck was about seventeen, in another he was about eight. I figure from the book that Huck is

If the author wished-for the story to be racist, he would not write about the way Huck felt towards Jim. “He [Twain] tried to evince the beauty of Huck and Jim's friendship by sealing it in flawed and humble English.” ( Race Traitor [D’Andrea 1992]). It is seen some throughout the book that Huck sees Jim as a white man. Huck tells the reader this when he realizes that Jim misses his own family and children, “I do believe he cared just as much for his people as white folks does for their’n” (150). Any words that seem to humiliate African-Americans is simply a casual use of Southern slang and not purposeful. Huck talks the way he was taught according to the culture then to stylize a specific behavior toward black slaves. However, his feelings toward Jim throughout the novel has taught Huck to conquer certain stereotypes, such as black stupidity and apathy. Huckleberry still

Huck looks at the good qualities of Jim and not his skin color. Even if this novel did display Mark Twain’s viewpoint, I believe it wouldn’t be a racist one. Huck shows friendship towards Jim as well. The novel shows that Huck has feelings for Jim when Huck says, “It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and tumble myself to a nigger-but I done it and I warn’t ever sorry for it afterwards, neither. I didn’t do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn’t done that one if I’d‘a’ knowed it would make him feel that way.” The Adventures of

Devices like mockery, irony, parody, and sarcasm make the use of satire effective . Satirists typically use these devices when hoping to expose, or even humiliate an individual or a society. Writers also use satire when creating social change as well as preventing it. Well known satirists include Mark Twain, Jonathan swift, and many other extarident authors. Every satirists uses different methods or devices to get their point across and effectively at that . Satirists use many different methods and devices like mockery, mock-heroic, and others to use satire effectively and gain an audience's attention.

“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, gives an eye opening view of the South during this time period through the eyes of Huck and Jim. Huck and Jim are very unlikely friends but become friends never the less and share many experiences on the river together. The two influence each other in more ways than one and may not even realize they do. They both have their own opinions and views although society heavily impacts them. Society’s view on racism is Huck’s view on racism because that is what he was brought up to be. The society has a powerful effect to smother problems such as slavery and racism. Huck being brought up in a society that ingrains racism in to you as a child is struggling to decide what is morally right and wrong to do and who will hopefully realize Jim's humanity at the end of the novel (Culture Shock).While talking to Huck, Aunt Sally projects "It warn't the grounding -- that didn't keep us back but a little. We blowed out a cylinder-head." "Good gracious! anybody hurt?" "No'm. Killed a nigger." "Well, it's lucky; because sometimes people

In Mark Twain`s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain demonstrates Pap to be one of the main sources of hypocrisy in the novel. For instance, when Pap returns back into Huck`s life the first thing he does is threaten him to leave school and give up his money in order for him to drink. Pap tells Huck “you think you`re better than your father, now don’t you, because he can`t [read]?

Many view Huckleberry Finn as a racist book for the portrayal of the runaway slave, Jim, but Twain writes from Huck’s point of view, who was a product of his society. In the book, while using dialect and actions accurate for the time and location, Twain never portrays Jim in a negative light. In contrast to Huck’s father, Jim cares about Huck. For example, when Jim and Huck are reunited after getting lost in the fog, Jim tells Huck, “my heart wuz mos’ broke bekase you wuz los’, en I didn’ k’yer no mo’ what become er me en de raf” (p. 157), as opposed to Huck’s father who only wants him around to prove he has control over Huck. This shows the difference between his white father who should be a strong male figure in his life, and a black man who actually looks out for Huck. Throughout the book, Huck comes to realize more and more that Jim is human just like

     Despite the few incidences of which Jim's description might be misconstrued as racist, there are many points in the novel where through Huck, Twain voices his extreme opposition to the slave trade and racism. In chapter six, Huck's father fervently objects to the governments granting of voting rights to an educated black professor. Twain wants the reader to see the absurdity in this statement. Huck's father believes that he is superior to this black professor simply because of the color of his skin. In chapter 15, the reader is told of an incident which contradicts the original "childlike" description of Jim. The reader is presented with a very caring and father-like Jim who becomes very worried when he loses his best friend Huck in a deep fog. Twain is pointing out the connection between Huck and Jim. A connection which does not exist between a man and his property.

When Huck finds out about the Duke and Dauphin’s plan to cheat the Phelps sisters out of their inheritance, he states "Well, if I ever struck anything like it, I'm a [n-word]. It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race" (Twain, 1986, page 175). In this quote, Huck appears to be racist and insensitive, however, he is just acting the way he has been taught his whole life. Huck’s racism is not the product of an immoral soul, just an immoral society that raised him. However, Twain’s choice of a young and apparently racist boy in the novel can be accounted for by his own childhood experiences. Twain is quoted as saying “In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware that there was anything wrong about it. No one arraigned it in my hearing; the local papers said nothing against it; the local pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was a holy thing, and the doubter need only look in the Bible if he wished to settle his mind — and then the texts were read aloud do us to make the matter sure” (Camfield, 2005). This quote has been a lightning rod for controversy, as critics claim that it proves Twain’s racism. However, just as Huck grows to detest the institution, Twain soon realized slavery for the evil that it was and began to detest it. Just like Huck, he grew up comfortable with demeaning

Huck was playing a trick on Jim and it hurt Jim’s feelings which made Huck feel bad he did that to Jim. Huck never realized that he would’ve hurt Jim’s feelings, and felt terrible that he did so. White people would’ve never felt terrible after what they would’ve done to a slave to hurt them regardless if it was beating them, or a trick. Huck’s conscience bit him in the rear for this. Twain is satirizing that Huck is just a kid who wanted to play a trick on Jim, a slave that he’s freeing from, and ended up hurting his feelings along the way.

Pap is greedy, racist, and a drunk. When he hears that Huck may have some money in the bank, he comes back to Hookerville to take it from his son. Even after Huck gives it all to Judge Thatcher, Pap tries to sue him for “his” money. When he doesn’t get his way, he kidnaps Huck and takes him to a cabin up the Mississippi River. While there, Pap rants about the government, specifically the voting process: “When they told me there was a State in the country where they’d let that nigger vote, I drawed out.

In the beginning of the novel mostly, Pap is a major character for many reasons. He is a static and flat character who never changes from his abusive, ignorant, alcoholic and racist self. Although he is not physically present in most of the story, he is present in the thoughts and actions of Huck. Growing up, Pap was never the dad Huck wanted and needed him to be; he was never there for him and even used him to get what he wanted at times. The novel states, “..and he went to Judge Thatcher's and bullyragged him, and tried to make him give up the money; but he couldn't, and then he swore he'd make the law force him,” (Twain, 50). This quote explains how Pap tried to get his sons money for one reason; alcohol. Pap will do anything he possible can to get his alcohol because he is an addict. He will steal, lie and even abuse his son to get what he wants. For this reason, Pap is also an antagonist throughout the novel. Huck is always fighting against his father; both physically and mentally. So Pap Finn is an addict, but there are good qualities to him, right? It’s not too hard to realize that this statement is false. Fathers are supposed to want what’s best for their kids, but Pap is not the same. Pap says to Huck, “You've put on considerable many frills since I been away.  I'll take you down a peg before I get done with you.  You're educated, too, they say—can read and write.  You think you're

Second of all, Twain also shows how southerners act toward their slaves and how racism is normal for them. The whites in the south are horrible to the African Americans, they treat the slaves like dirt. Huck is supprissed when Jim starts to cry about his daughter: “It don’t seem natural, but I reckon it’s so” (Twain 155). Huck was raised to think that African Americans are not human so when Jim cries Huck is surprised. The southerners are so blinded by their racism that they think that only the matter of skin color makes them a superior. The article ¨The Adventures…¨ mentions a State that is trying to enter the union as a slave state: “The furor had begun when Missouri requested to enter the Union as a slave state” (¨The Adventures…¨11). If Missouri is a slave state, then African Americans would not be welcomed. Twain shows the true colors of the white slave owner or owners and how they treat them like crap. The attitudes of the southerners are disgusting because they think that the African Americans are property not people. Twain describes this mental state that the slaves are not human through Tom’s aunt: “‘Well, it’s Lucky; because sometimes people do get hurt’” (Twain 221). Tom’s aunt is only concerned about Huck because he is white but she could care less about any slave.

The society which Huck tries to escape looks down upon blacks. Society sees blacks as nothing more than slaves, possessions. Jim himself reinforces this: "I owns mysef, en I’s wuth eight hund’d dollars" (Twain 41). The society also sees blacks as superstitiously afraid. Huck and Tom tease Jim at the beginning of

While Pap may have been Huck’s father by blood, he did none of the things that would even remotely make him a “real” father. From Pap, Huck learned nothing but about how immoral and vicious humans can be. Every time Pap is drunk, he terrorizes Huck, so much to the point that Pap’s drunkenness