This novel is a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. In this book, Tom is still involved and joins in a little plan of his own at the end. Although this is a sequel to Tom’s story, the main character is Huck who becomes a runaway with a slave named Jim. Huck escapes his abusive father and ends up finding an aristocratic family, two people who are obviously out to scam people, and Tom’s Aunt Polly. The novel is known for its satirical elements on several subjects including: family feuds, religion, romance, superstition, and the legal system. As discussed in the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, there are two families that Huck just so happens to run into. As he settles in with one of the families there is a conversation that discusses
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He tries to send the message that it is dangerous to romanticize people, objects, and situations. In this case, his figure of satire is Tom Sawyer, Huck’s friend. Tom mentions at one point makes a comment about ransoms and how “that’s what they do. I’ve seen it in books (Twain 7).” It is known from Tom that he tends to read romantic novels, and to base of your knowledge off of such a thing can be quite risky depending on the situation. Tom repeatedly brings up his romance fictional novels that he follows dearly by stating, “Why blame it all, we’ve got to do it. Don’t I tell you it’s in the books? (Twain 21)” Twain mocks how this small child follows and categorizes the books as facts. He uses this to foil him to Huck who, for the most part, manages to get by with logic and reasoning. Meanwhile, Tom is the complete opposite as he is driven by his …show more content…
The child has so much money under his name and trust the judge to take care of both the money and himself. In the novel, the new judge that comes along gives Huck’s father custody over him even though the whole town knows him as a terrible drunk. Everyone in the town is aware of how he abuses and is a terrible person in general. Being the new judge that he is; he knows nothing of this man’s past and allows him to take Huck to an isolated area where he eventually stays to suffer. It is because of incidents and occurrences such as these that show the satirical differences in the justice system in the United States of
He tries to send the message that it is dangerous to romanticize people, objects, and situations. In this case, his figure of satire is Tom Sawyer, Huck’s friend. Tom mentions at one point makes a comment about ransoms and how “that’s what they do. I’ve seen it in books (Twain 7).” It is known from Tom that he tends to read romantic novels, and to base of your knowledge off of such a thing can be quite risky depending on the situation. Tom repeatedly brings up his romance fictional novels that he follows dearly by stating, “Why blame it all, we’ve got to do it. Don’t I tell you it’s in the books? (Twain 21)” Twain mocks how this small child follows and categorizes the books as facts. He uses this to foil him to Huck who, for the most part, manages to get by with logic and reasoning. Meanwhile, Tom is the complete opposite as he is driven by his …show more content…
The child has so much money under his name and trust the judge to take care of both the money and himself. In the novel, the new judge that comes along gives Huck’s father custody over him even though the whole town knows him as a terrible drunk. Everyone in the town is aware of how he abuses and is a terrible person in general. Being the new judge that he is; he knows nothing of this man’s past and allows him to take Huck to an isolated area where he eventually stays to suffer. It is because of incidents and occurrences such as these that show the satirical differences in the justice system in the United States of