1. What is satire? How is this a work of satire? Satire is a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule. This work employs satire by ridiculing the state of America before the civil war and uses characters such as Huck or Tom to represent ideas or ways of life in order to show the folly of man. For example, the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons were satirical in that they represented the Southern Code of Honor and how impractical the people who followed it were.
2 Huckleberry Finn is portrayed by Mark Twain at first to be somewhat oblivious or uneducated about the world around him, yet has the practicality and street smarts to navigate through life on his own. Someone from …show more content…
Jim is portrayed as a father figure to Huck. His keeping Huck from seeing the “ghastly” visage of the dead man’s face tells us that Jim has a sense of innocence, and doesn’t quite want Huck to lose his. They both are slaves, but Jim is the obvious slave. Twain portrays him in a rather positive light, despite him being called an nigger. Portraying a black man like that was out of the ordinary in that time, as most held onto to their contempt for African Americans. Jim is also portrayed as wise, superstitious. Not dumb, but “simple” as someone who can fly under the radar and appease his white masters.
As the story progresses, we get some back story on Jim, but not much as to call it “ character changing.” We learn about his family and his regrets. Mark Twain’s depiction of Jim is consistent with that of the time period. With research, I learned that at the time, black men were basically minstrels: black-faced figments of white fun. Jim’s character tries to shatter those ideas with his own moral code and human qualities of which were hardly seen before. "I do believe he cared just as much for his people as white folks does for their 'n. It don 't seem natural, but I reckon it 's so" (Twain …show more content…
The dauphin also seems to persuade the duke into doing all sorts of dastardly deeds, of which the duke is not so sure about, either way, they manage to bring in one of Twain’s favorite things: Shakespeare. Without needing to go into specifics, it’s safe to say the two conmen love Shakespeare, but are horrible at quoting his works. It is important to note an interesting point about those they con. They may be nice, but are certainly not “good.”As indicated by their Royal Nonesuch play, the first crowd actually wanted to con the other crowd. They were no better than the conmen, it
2 Huckleberry Finn is portrayed by Mark Twain at first to be somewhat oblivious or uneducated about the world around him, yet has the practicality and street smarts to navigate through life on his own. Someone from …show more content…
Jim is portrayed as a father figure to Huck. His keeping Huck from seeing the “ghastly” visage of the dead man’s face tells us that Jim has a sense of innocence, and doesn’t quite want Huck to lose his. They both are slaves, but Jim is the obvious slave. Twain portrays him in a rather positive light, despite him being called an nigger. Portraying a black man like that was out of the ordinary in that time, as most held onto to their contempt for African Americans. Jim is also portrayed as wise, superstitious. Not dumb, but “simple” as someone who can fly under the radar and appease his white masters.
As the story progresses, we get some back story on Jim, but not much as to call it “ character changing.” We learn about his family and his regrets. Mark Twain’s depiction of Jim is consistent with that of the time period. With research, I learned that at the time, black men were basically minstrels: black-faced figments of white fun. Jim’s character tries to shatter those ideas with his own moral code and human qualities of which were hardly seen before. "I do believe he cared just as much for his people as white folks does for their 'n. It don 't seem natural, but I reckon it 's so" (Twain …show more content…
The dauphin also seems to persuade the duke into doing all sorts of dastardly deeds, of which the duke is not so sure about, either way, they manage to bring in one of Twain’s favorite things: Shakespeare. Without needing to go into specifics, it’s safe to say the two conmen love Shakespeare, but are horrible at quoting his works. It is important to note an interesting point about those they con. They may be nice, but are certainly not “good.”As indicated by their Royal Nonesuch play, the first crowd actually wanted to con the other crowd. They were no better than the conmen, it