Twain's social criticisms are not hampered by the dominance of Huck's adventures most of the time. The adventures are not the childish adventures that Twain used in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but they are a series of episodes that each target a different aspect of Southern society and ridicule it in some way. Huck experiences different types of adventures, some of which are innocent and childish, and some of which are serious and life-threatening. However, each adventure, whether directly or indirectly, contains and element of satire of Southern culture. Huck's straightforward and unassuming style of narrating the adventures makes the impact of Twain's social criticisms even greater. By using Huck as the narrator, Twain presents the issues through Huck's eyes, and since Huck is an outsider to Southern society, he can look into it and question its morality. However, in the last section of the novel, the adventures become excessively childish, and much of the impact that Twain has built up through the novel is lost, for the novel turns into a meaningless comedy rather than a satire.

of how the tone of the adventures has changed, becoming more serious and less childlike. Since it is real-life situations that Huck is facing now, rather than the childish adventures with Tom Sawyer. It is through this change that Twain's social criticisms become more dominant and direct.

ut the book, the nature of Huck's adventures changes, and in each the method Twain uses to ridicule society is either direct or indirect. At the beginning of the novel, the style of adventure is childish and innocent. This is largely due to the inclusion of Tom, who insists on having romantic adventures. The style of satire in the first set of chapters is quite indirect, but it easily noticed. From the first few chapters, we begin to see the fundamental differences between Huck and Tom. One of the first adventures that Huck takes part in is when he joins Tom Sawyer's gang, which was meant to do "nothing only robbery and murder" (pg. 57). Huck looks up to Tom, and has a need to be with his peers and so does all he can to join the gang. However, we soon see Huck's insight and common sense coming through, and after Tom Sawyer's gang raids a Sunday school picnic, who were supposedly meant to be rich Arabs, Huck says "I judged that all that stuff was only just one of Tom Sawyer's lies". (pg 64) One of Twain's key social criticisms is the proliferation of unnecessary romanticism and the value of integrity and common sense. We see this in Huck and Tom's characters. Tom is a romantic, who believes in doing everything the right way, just like they do in the books, but Huck believes in doing what seems common sense to him. The establishment of Huck's character in the first few adventures is essential to gaining the greater meaning of the impact, for in the first few adventures with Tom Sawyer, we learn that Huck is independent, resourceful but also ignorant and not fully assimilated into Southern society.

Throughout most of the novel, the adventures of Huck do not detract from the impact of Twain's social criticisms. There are different types of adventures in the novel, ranging from the childishly innocent, yet subtly satirical adventures in the first section of the novel, to the very real and dangerous adventures that Huck has in the middle of the novel, where Twain bases the brunt of his criticisms. Each adventure down the river is an episode in Huck's life where he will meet different people that are targeted by Twain for ridicule. The third and final section contains a type of adventure similar to the first, except exceedingly childish and superficial in meaning, where the reader can lose interest in the book, and thus lose the impact of the previous satire. Finally, the style of Huck narrating the adventures serves to enforce the impact, for he does not really participate in the adventures,

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