Huckleberry Finn

“The pitifulest thing out there is a mob; that’s what an army is-a mob; they don’t fight with courage that’s born in them, but with courage that’s borrowed from their mass, and from their officers” (147). In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the author, Mark Twain, uses satire that is mainly displayed through two of the main characters, Huckleberry Finn and Jim. Satire is a literary tone that is used to mock or make fun of a human vice or weakness. Twain uses the novel to attack the hypocrisies of racism, superstition, greed, religion, and mob mentality.
One of Mark Twain’s major points in his novel is the issue of racism. “So there’s a reward out for him (Jim)--three hundred dollars. And there’s a reward out there for old Finn, too--two hundred dollars” (57). This quote in the novel shows the reader what things were valued in the south during this time and what things were not. Jim was wanted as a runaway slave, and they were willing to pay three h...