Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking. Mark Twain’s novel titled Huckleberry Finn was originally published December 10th, 1884 and is about the adventure of a young boy named Huckleberry Finn in the southern part of America and his journey in a racist and hateful society. Twain was born November 30th, 1835 in the small town of Florida, Missouri. His birth name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens and he was one of six children. Twain when he was thirteen quit school to go work for his for his brother’s newspaper company where he printed and helped edit, this is when he first fell in love with writing. Twain throughout the novel uses many literary devices in his novel title Huckleberry Finn such …show more content…
The first example of satire in the novel is when Huck is explaining what happened in court, he states, “The judge and the widow went to law to get the court to take me away from him and let one of them be my guardian; but it was a new judge that had just come, and didn’t know the old man; so he said courts mustn’t interfere and separate families if they could help it; said he’d druther not take a child away from his father.” (p.62). Twain is portraying the problem with the American justice system since the judge in this situation is allowing a known drunk who abuses his child to keep custody of him since “he’d druther not take a child away from his father” (p.62). Any common sense applied to this situation would obviously take this child from his abusive father but the way the legal system works the right outcome does not always happen. Another example of satire in Huckleberry Finn is family grudges. Family feuds are present throughout the novel, most obvious feud would be between the Grangerford and Shepherdson families who have been at war at with each other for many years, so long that many of the family members do not even remember why they are fighting. When Huck asks who started this feud between families Buck they said, “What was the trouble about, Buck? -land?" "I reckon Maybe-I don't know." "Well, who …show more content…
[Find quote about legal system]. The second time Twain uses irony in his novel is with the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons. The Grangerfords and Shepherdsons have being fighting for years, going as far as killing members of the opposite family but will go to the same church each Sunday. It is ironic since Christian beliefs are against what both families are doing but they think they are model Christians since they go to church every Sunday. The final example of irony in Huckleberry Finn is with Jim and Huck. Jim is talking to Huck about his future plans to Huck saying that he will work hard and buy his wife and children from their slave owners and Huck thinks in his head, “I was sorry to hear Jim say that, it was such a lowering of him”. This is ironic because in this type of situation, where someone’s family was torn apart, sympathy is expected but Huck is saying almost the direct opposite. It is showing how slavery in America made affected people's mindset changing Huck’s reaction for feeling sorry for Jim into making Jim seem pathetic for his hopes of reuniting his
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking. Mark Twain’s novel titled Huckleberry Finn was originally published December 10th, 1884 and is about the adventure of a young boy named Huckleberry Finn in the southern part of America and his journey in a racist and hateful society. Twain was born November 30th, 1835 in the small town of Florida, Missouri. His birth name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens and he was one of six children. Twain when he was thirteen quit school to go work for his for his brother’s newspaper company where he printed and helped edit, this is when he first fell in love with writing. Twain throughout the novel uses many literary devices in his novel title Huckleberry Finn such …show more content…
The first example of satire in the novel is when Huck is explaining what happened in court, he states, “The judge and the widow went to law to get the court to take me away from him and let one of them be my guardian; but it was a new judge that had just come, and didn’t know the old man; so he said courts mustn’t interfere and separate families if they could help it; said he’d druther not take a child away from his father.” (p.62). Twain is portraying the problem with the American justice system since the judge in this situation is allowing a known drunk who abuses his child to keep custody of him since “he’d druther not take a child away from his father” (p.62). Any common sense applied to this situation would obviously take this child from his abusive father but the way the legal system works the right outcome does not always happen. Another example of satire in Huckleberry Finn is family grudges. Family feuds are present throughout the novel, most obvious feud would be between the Grangerford and Shepherdson families who have been at war at with each other for many years, so long that many of the family members do not even remember why they are fighting. When Huck asks who started this feud between families Buck they said, “What was the trouble about, Buck? -land?" "I reckon Maybe-I don't know." "Well, who …show more content…
[Find quote about legal system]. The second time Twain uses irony in his novel is with the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons. The Grangerfords and Shepherdsons have being fighting for years, going as far as killing members of the opposite family but will go to the same church each Sunday. It is ironic since Christian beliefs are against what both families are doing but they think they are model Christians since they go to church every Sunday. The final example of irony in Huckleberry Finn is with Jim and Huck. Jim is talking to Huck about his future plans to Huck saying that he will work hard and buy his wife and children from their slave owners and Huck thinks in his head, “I was sorry to hear Jim say that, it was such a lowering of him”. This is ironic because in this type of situation, where someone’s family was torn apart, sympathy is expected but Huck is saying almost the direct opposite. It is showing how slavery in America made affected people's mindset changing Huck’s reaction for feeling sorry for Jim into making Jim seem pathetic for his hopes of reuniting his