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HUCKLEBERRY FINN

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn



The novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, uses great criticizing satire through the author Mark Twain’s sense of humor, sarcasm, and wit. Twain pinpoints three major aspects of civilized society throughout the novel to criticize. Racism and slavery, religious pretence, and allegedly civilized society are all key points that Twain touches on during the story.
One of the most common uses of satire in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the criticism towards “civilized society”. In Chapter 18 Huck learns about the family feud between the Sheperdson’s and the Grangerford’s. Twain uses seemingly civilized people to represent ridiculous feuds. Huck realizes if that’s how civilized people act he didn’t want to take any part in it. Even though he was taken care of better then he ever had been while he was there with Col. Grangerford and his family, it wasn’t the way to go for Huck, especially when he found his new...

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