Huckleberry Finn Satire

it warn’t any good to me without hooks”(10-11) It is a well known fact that prayer is a part of the Christian religion. Twain uses this situation to convey a parody of Christian prayer and prayer antics. Christianity stresses that it is important to pray so you can communicate and connect with God on a deeper level. Twain is satirizing how Christians can sometimes pray for things so superficial, yet they claim they are connecting with

Twain extends his satire to the moment surrounding the funeral service of Peter Wilks. The dark humor of the funeral scene is obvious with the actions of the undertaker and the interruption of the dog catching rat. When the service is interrupted by the noise of the dog, the undertaker tells the people at the funeral that "He had a rat!" Huck's says "there warn't no more popular man in town than what that undertaker was" which is another example of satire directed at the subject of death. The scene in which Mary Jane is saddened by the unfortunate situation of the slave family, forces Huck to act based on both his instincts and his conscience.

In the story “In Cold Blood” the author Truman Capote uses a tone of scathing and tragic. “Those somber explosions that stimulated fires of mistrust in the glare oh which many old neighbors viewed each other strangely, and as strangers.” That shows how everything was so different around the neighborhood after they were brutally killed. “At the time not a soul in sleeping Holcomb heard them- four shotgun blasts that, all told, ended six human lives.” After the accident, “Towns people, therefore sufficiently unfearful of each other.”

In Copper Sun it shows how slave owners have guns and are not afraid to use them. “Then with one hand, he cocked the musket and aimed it at Noah’s broad chest.” (183) (Mr. Derby, about to slay a slave named Noah). Slaves also had trouble using and understanding guns, as there was never a need for them in their homeland. This sentence shows how slaves didn’t even know what a gun was, let alone how it worked.

The scene that I relate to in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is when Huck is trying to get away from the Duke and the King. The quote that I found for this part in the book was when huck was talking to Mary Jane and he said “ It’s a rough gang, them two frauds, I’m fixed so I got to travel with them a while longer...”(187). This quote shows that Huck has figured out that the Duke and King are not good people and that he knows that he will still be with them for a little while longer.

Parody is when a work apes another work in an absurd tone so as to mock the original. Parody’s use to mock government in Huckleberry Finn is best exemplified by Colonel Sherburn’s rant to the lynch mob that formed against him after he shot and killed Boggs: “‘You [The members of a lynch mob] didn’t want to come. The average man don’t like trouble and danger. You don’t like trouble and danger. But if only half a man -- like Buck Harkness, there - shouts ‘Lynch him!

In the Balad of Tom Joad “And the hungry little kids of the jungle camp, said, "We’d like to have some, too” (Woody Guthrie, 63). This quote reflects that as a matter of fact, many people were extremely starving, and they laid down their dignities to beg for food. Nonetheless, “Now a deputy sheriff fired loose at a man” (Woody Guthrie, 40). This quote shows the injustice between common people and brutal deputy sheriff that also reflects obviously the cruel society in the 1930s. In the song, “Before he could take his aim again, Preacher Casey dropped him in his track, poor boy” (Woody Guthrie, 48).

(110). Unable to recall the source of the conflict, Buck discerns the honor his family takes in defending their name, so he picks up a gun a follows suit. Twain’s ridicule of the family’s pomposity shows how easily individuals are able to adopt the behaviour of others around them. Furthermore, we see satire present

It has been brought to my attention by your organization, that you wish to have the classic novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, banned from our school systems. Now, I can understand your views and claims against this book, but in order to stay with a clean conscience, I must not let you and your organization bring forth this motion. As the head of both the city council and the local school board, I hold some sway with the other councillors and board members as well. I shall do everything in my power to convince them to vote against this outrageous demand. That is if, I cannot convince you, or the majority of your organization to not move forward with this motion.

Before the Civil War, slavery was a very popular practice in the southern United States. Though not many people actually had slaves, most southerners defended it because one day owning a slave was the “American Dream.” In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain uses satire to reveal the greed, religious hypocrisy, and gullibility among the pre-Civil War south. Twain uses satire to demonstrate how greed can leave a person with less than what they began with.

Mark Twain uses satire to portray different issues that were going on during the time period. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, author Mark Twain uses Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer to represent romanticism and realism. Doing so formed the characters into two drastically different persons. Mark Twain uses satirical elements to contrast the two main characters in their personalities and views. Tom Sawyer is a child who is blinded with fictional literature and the worlds view on slaves.

In Mark Twain’s classic novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the subject of gun violence plays a prominent role. Twain satirizes the subject pointing out its futility through the point of view of the novel’s central character. Huck was raised around guns all of his life. He explains that he was taken away from his abusive father and forced to live with the Widow Douglass who had plans to “sivilize” him. His father, however, kidnaps him and threatens his life during a drunken rage forcing Huck to take up arms to escape his father’s wrath.

Twain uses satire in this paragraph because the battalions were out in the streets minutes before ready to kill the foe and now they are reciting a “long” prayer for safety and comfort during war. In the “long” prayer,

Kelly Meusborn AP Lit & Comp 12 31 August 2015 19th Century Novel: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn NOTE-TAKING TASKS: a) Huckleberry Finn runs away from his home and abusive father. He meets up with Jim, a runaway slave and together they set out on a journey on the Mississippi River. The encounter all sorts of people that lead Huck and Jim into trouble. Ultimately these characters and events help Huck form his own understanding on life and himself.

A prominent example of this is shown when Huck visits the Grangerford family. The Grangerfords have been locked in a decades long “feud” with a nearby family, the Shepherdsons. The two families are willing to kill each other on sight and don’t even know how the feud started. However, the families attend church together with their guns between their knees. On page 171 the text states; “Next Sunday we all went to church, about three mile, everybody ahorseback.