Mark Twain Use Of Irony In Huck Finn

Mark Twain use of Irony show that caring about someone would lead you to ignore others who have ignorant thinking. This quote is portrayed when Huck was thinking about what was bothering him in his head, and he said, “ There was the sunday-school, you could ‘a’ gone to it; and if you’d ‘a’ done it they’d ‘a’ learnt you there that people that acts as I’d been acting about that slave goes to everlasting fire. It made me shiver(The American Dilemma, lines 21 -23).” The use of Irony helps developed the expectation that interracial relationship are not ideal in society. Although in reality Huck sees that teaching as a discomfort to him when he said “It made me shiver”, that quote displays that Huck relationship Jim is strong that the thinking