Sarcasm in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of Mark Twain's most loved, most influential, and most controversial books. Mark Twain uses sarcasm and humor often in his novels, and this book is no exception. His rich characters use their dialects and intellects to ridicule just about anything that Twain had strong feelings about. In this novel, Twain develops the plot into Huck and Jim's adventures allowing him to weave in his sarcasm of society. The two main characters, Huck and Jim, both run from social injustice and both are distrustful of the civilization around them. Huck is considered an uneducated backwards boy, constantly under pressure to conform to the "humanized" surroundings of society. In addition, Jim is considered...