Huckleberry Finn Seminar
1. Discuss Twain’s use of satire in Huckleberry Finn. Choose two of Twain’s targets and explain the satire directed toward each.Mark Twain uses satire to show how the people’s rationale of slavery is not right. Huck Finn grows up in an environment surrounded by people that teach him that blacks are not as good as whites. They even go so far as to think that blacks aren’t even people like whites. Jim helps and protects Huck during his journey. One night on watch after the duke and king have joined them, Jim doesn’t wake Huck up for his part of watch, and Huck says that this happened quite often. Jim was looking out for Huck and taking his watch. Then Huck talks about how Jim is crying for his family that he misses, and he can’t understand how Jim can care for his family like white people do. He said it didn’t seem natural. So even though Huck is starting to see Jim as more of a person than before, he still thinks that Jim is acting strangely for a black person. Mark Twain also uses satire to show man’s inhumanity to man. The robbers on the Walter Scott thought that it would be better to leave the man to drown rather than just killing him outright. They thought leaving him wasn’t their fault and it was good morals.
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Approximate Word count = 1559
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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