Examples Of Satire In Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by the famous Mark Twain, is a great example of satire that uses humor to reflect Twain’s opinions. He makes things seem so stupid and idiotic so that the readers also side with him in the many lessons he is trying to prove, because it seems the logical way to think when he makes things so foolish. Not many people think about the comical side of Twain’s novel, and just focus on the lessons. But they never focus on how the lessons are expressed and in Huck Finn’s case; it is through humor that Twain illustrates change. The Band of “Robbers” was the first thing Twain used to describe the aspects of society he disliked. Huck Finn was a boy who grew up believing everything society had taught him, and society would determine what was right or wrong, not Huck himself. However the society focused so much on books that the kids cannot think for themselves. In a gang of robbers, you’re not supposed to follow the rules, but yet these boys say they must follow everything that is in the books. If it is not in the books, then they are not going to do it, regardless
Throughout the whole story, these two con-artists are scandalizing people out of their money, and just do things that most people could never think of doing because it is so fowl and uncommon. It seems extremely suspicious that a “duke” and a “dauphin” would waste their time sailing around with a kid and a slave, who they happened to meet while on a river. A “duke” and a “dauphin” should be living in a palace, not wandering the rivers. To just think that two people could be so heartless that they plan to rob a family who just experienced a tragic death, and pretend they are related to them, is just so out of the ordinary that it is hard to believe. Mark Twain uses these characters to frown upon thievery and cheating