Satire in Huck Finn
In Mark Twains novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the Grangerfords and Pap are the two characters who are used by Twain to condemn the civilized society. Twain tries to express his feeling that civilized society isn’t always the prettier thing. Twain uses the technique of satirizing civilized society. Examples of ways he uses satirizing throughout the story are though exaggeration, stereotyping, and irony. Twain’s use of satire exposes the Grangerfords as the typical southern aristocrats and pap as the typical drunken “white trash”. After a ferryboat accident, Huck seems to lose his slave companion Jim after coming ashore. Huck then is introduced to Buck Grangerford (about the same age as Huck) and is allowed to stay in the Grangerford household. The Grangerford family consists of Buck, who is a young adventurous boy, Emmiline, a fourteen year old that was dead girl, Bob, Tom, Miss Charlotte, and Miss Sophia. The Grangerfords showed all the signs of being upper class
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Approximate Word count = 668
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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