Many people perceive Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in many different aspects. One aspect through the novel is a sense of relatability between the author Mark Twain’s life and the characters life. Twain illustrates his perspectives on topics such as education, slavery, and freedom from society in the novel that go hand in hand with his personal experiences. Mark Twain reveals his battle with his inner demons of desiring freedom and his alcoholism through the characters of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Mark Twain wrote this novel in the wake of Reconstruction, however, Twain set the book before the Civil War. The Reconstruction period was a time where the confederate states were brought back into the union. During …show more content…
One personality trait of Huck is loyalty. Huck bends over backward for anyone and expects nothing in return. When Huck keeps a promise, he does not betray them instead he keeps his loyalty to the person, especially Jim. "Well, I did. I said I wouldn't, and I'll stick to it. Honest INJUN, I will. People would call me a low-down Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum—but that don't make no difference. I ain't a-going to tell, and I ain't a-going back there, anyways. So, now, le's know all about it." (Twain 45). Huck would rather face the consequences of helping a slave than betraying Jim and his loyalty. Another personality trait Huck has is being open minded about slavery, “It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling, because I’d got to decide, for ever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: ‘All right, then, I’ll go to hell’-- and tore it up” (Twain 210). Most people of the South would have sent the letter of the whereabouts of a runaway slave but Huck opens his mind to think that Jim is more than just property, that he is a human …show more content…
Twain uses satire the most in the novel to make fun of the way society views things. The first instance of satire is when Tom wanted to copy a scene in an adventure book of ransoming someone, “Ransomed? What’s that? I don’t know. But that’s what they do. I’ve seen it in books; and so of course that’s what we’ve got to do.” (Twain 18). This is ironic because instead of having a good education as boy should, he thinks it is okay to copy what he reads in an adventure book. Another instance of satire is when Pap is angry at Huck for being educated, “And looky here- you drop that school, you hear? I’ll learn people to bring up a boy to put on airs over his own father and let on to be better’n what he is. You lemme catch you fooling around that school again, you hear?” (Twain 28). Usually, a father is ecstatic that their son is educated and has a better life than they do, so it is ironic that instead of Pap being happy for Huck, Pap is furious. The last instance of satire in the novel is when a reward for capturing Jim, a runaway slave is more money than a reward for capturing Pap who everyone thinks killed Huck, “The nigga run off the very night Huck Finn was killed. So there's a reward out for him- three hundred dollars. And there’s a reward out for old Finn, too- two hundred dollars.” (Twain 63). The irony in this is that society is more bent on capturing a slave for their own selfish reasons than
Mark Twain wrote this novel in the wake of Reconstruction, however, Twain set the book before the Civil War. The Reconstruction period was a time where the confederate states were brought back into the union. During …show more content…
One personality trait of Huck is loyalty. Huck bends over backward for anyone and expects nothing in return. When Huck keeps a promise, he does not betray them instead he keeps his loyalty to the person, especially Jim. "Well, I did. I said I wouldn't, and I'll stick to it. Honest INJUN, I will. People would call me a low-down Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum—but that don't make no difference. I ain't a-going to tell, and I ain't a-going back there, anyways. So, now, le's know all about it." (Twain 45). Huck would rather face the consequences of helping a slave than betraying Jim and his loyalty. Another personality trait Huck has is being open minded about slavery, “It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling, because I’d got to decide, for ever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: ‘All right, then, I’ll go to hell’-- and tore it up” (Twain 210). Most people of the South would have sent the letter of the whereabouts of a runaway slave but Huck opens his mind to think that Jim is more than just property, that he is a human …show more content…
Twain uses satire the most in the novel to make fun of the way society views things. The first instance of satire is when Tom wanted to copy a scene in an adventure book of ransoming someone, “Ransomed? What’s that? I don’t know. But that’s what they do. I’ve seen it in books; and so of course that’s what we’ve got to do.” (Twain 18). This is ironic because instead of having a good education as boy should, he thinks it is okay to copy what he reads in an adventure book. Another instance of satire is when Pap is angry at Huck for being educated, “And looky here- you drop that school, you hear? I’ll learn people to bring up a boy to put on airs over his own father and let on to be better’n what he is. You lemme catch you fooling around that school again, you hear?” (Twain 28). Usually, a father is ecstatic that their son is educated and has a better life than they do, so it is ironic that instead of Pap being happy for Huck, Pap is furious. The last instance of satire in the novel is when a reward for capturing Jim, a runaway slave is more money than a reward for capturing Pap who everyone thinks killed Huck, “The nigga run off the very night Huck Finn was killed. So there's a reward out for him- three hundred dollars. And there’s a reward out for old Finn, too- two hundred dollars.” (Twain 63). The irony in this is that society is more bent on capturing a slave for their own selfish reasons than