The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Satire Analysis
Twain efficaciously utilizes satire in, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, to instigate social change through the hypocritical characters in his novel that Huck meets on his adventure to free Jim from the cruel bondage of slavery. His writing involves immensely taboo topics and he uses humor to convey his message of the wrongdoing of the American, and explicitly the Southern, society in a lighter mood. Important examples were the abusive father Pap, the violent Grangerfords and Sheperdsons feud, and Aunt Sally’s racialism. Modern society continues to satirize the hypocrisy of racism and blind tradition time after time, noticing that while Twain’s book was effective, it was not effective enough to ignite the end to racism, something I fear