Mark Twain’s many running themes are displayed to add to the character’s that are portrayed. Twain uses things such as humor, false hoods, and religion to flesh out his main cast of vagabonds. Although Twain displays humor as a way to lighten the mood of the book, it instead reveals the inner darkness of his real messages about religion, education, and slavery. Twain pokes fun at the way people thought of religion back then. He talks about the way Miss Watson and the Widow Douglas try to educate
In the Post-Civil War era of America, people seemed to be in a religious frenzy; there was another revival in Christian and Protestant movements. Many people however, such as Mark Twain, looked upon this sudden “revival” with amusement due to the radical and almost irrational customs this revival brought with it. Using his main character Huckleberry Finn as a vessel of this thought process in “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, Twain is able to poke fun at the inconsistencies in the American people’s