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Huck Finn Satire Analysis

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by Mark Twain during the 1880s, however, the setting is in the 1830s, where slavery and racial issues were most prominent. This coming of age story traces the psychological, moral, and social developments of a young southern and morally conflicted boy named Huckleberry Finn. While on the run from the constraints of society, Huck happens to run into Ms. Watson’s runaway slave named Jim. They then decide to stick together. The rest of the novel consists of Huck learning true friendship, bravely finds independence from society, and experiences that change him into the character he is at the end. The majority of these experiences would be run-ins with society’s flaws, which he then learns from. One of the traits of Huckleberry Finn is Mark Twain’s use of satire, or humor, to poke fun at, while also criticizing, flaws in society. Mark Twain uses the characters’ experiences to illustrate the hypocrisy of society, while also promoting the change of ditching hypocrisy in people's everyday lives.
Through the use of satire, Twain criticizes the act of feuding to make a statement of the ridiculousness of grudges and feuding between neighbors, while also making a statement about societal norms. When Huck stumbles upon a farm, he is welcomed and introduced into the lives of the Grangerfords, who happen to be in the midst of a drawn-out feud with their neighbors, the Shepherdsons. Huck, having grown away from society, questions Buck to why

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