Huck Finn and Satire
One name from American Literature that probably all school children know is Mark Twain. Along with that, one book from American Literature that probably all school children have heard about is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Truly, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was a marvel of its own time and is still a great classic today as it illustrates for its reader the pre-civil war South far beyond anything one could imagine. The book itself makes such great use of satire and humor and criticism to make Mark Twain’s opinions known and paint a surprisingly accurate picture of the South. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain satirizes and criticizes societies and customs of the southern pre-civil war towns lining the banks of the great Mississippi River. Mark Twain uses his masterful ways of satire to voice his opinions upon the societies especially in satirizing the judicial system, which he does so passionately in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain humorously shows how lenient and sometimes ignorant the court systems can be and how the law enforcement cannot deal with actual crimes. Law enforcement does nothing about drunkards like Huck’s father and the court system hardly punishes him for his crimes. Judge
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Approximate Word count = 908
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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