Examples Of Satire In Huckleberry Finn

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Tawin targets American society through his novel Huckleberry Finn, by using satirical events to show why American society is corrupt. In the beginning of the novel we as readers already start to see American society in negative ways. The main satirical event was when Huck Finn experienced the topic of the family feud. A feud is like this, one person kills another, that person's brother kills the person then other family members go against each other until there is no one left(111). The meaning of the satire is that Huck experiences this family that is willing to kill each other and willing to get there family killed over a feud they don't even remember what for. They kill each other in the name of a feud that they aren't sure what they are

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