Use Of Satire In Huckleberry Finn

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Huckleberry Finn is a very complicated and difficult novel to understand. From the way the characters act to the little jokes and irony that Mark Twain uses. Just in the first few pages Twain adress tons of controversial issues such as Government,slavery,Social class but more in particular religion. Twain’s use of satires are directed towards American culture in particular the south, and peoples costumes. In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain uses satires of Religion through the characters in the novel to show flaws during the 1800’s During the time that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written religion was a major part of people's daily lives. When Huck's gradiuan Widow Douglas was making dinner and Huck was confused…show more content…
Huck is trying to become a civilized person but it is not coming naturally to him. Huck is struggling with the praying part of religion. During one of Huck's religious class Widow Douglas tries to explain to him that you don't pray for tangible thing but you try to pray for spiritual gifts.“ Then Miss Watson she took me in the closet and prayed, but nothing come of it. She told me to pray every day, and whenever I asked for I would get it. But it warn't any good to me without hooks. I tried for the hooks three or four times, but somehow I couldn't make it work. By and by, one day, I asked Miss Watson to try for me, but she said I was a fool. She never told me why, and I couldn't make it out no way” ( Twain 10-11). Huck doesn't understand that if you can pray for spiritual gifts why you pray for tangible gifts. Last example is when Duke and Dauphin go to the town and put on a shakespeare play but while they are there they go to a church and pretend they are pirates and scheme all the people for…show more content…
The Shepherdsons done the same. It was pretty much ornery preaching-all about brotherly love, and such-like tiresomeness; but everybody said it was good sermon, and they all talked it over going home, and had such a powerful lot to say about faith and good works and free grace and preforeordestination, and I don't know what all, did seem to me to be one of the roughest Sundays I had run across yet.” (Twain 109). While they are talking about how church was great and they feel so much better after the service, Huck thinks that it was one of the worst service had and he was right because the next day the two families had one of the deadliest feuds that has happened. Another instance is when Huck was doubtful about religion and Miss Watson was teaching him about Moses and then starts a lecture about Heaven verus Hell. Huck says that Moses is unimportant within his life and in the live of others. “ After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so
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