Huck discovers an impressive house near the water after being separated from Jim. The house belongs to the Grangerford family. They take Huck in and he appreciates their hospitality.
The Grangerfords have a son named Buck, who is about Huck's age, Buck and Huck become close friends over the next few days. Huck learns of the feud between the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons, but Buck Grangerford cannot tell him exactly how the feud started. No one in either family seems to know why the feud started.
One day Sophia Grangerford runs off with the enemy’s son whose name is Harney Shepherdson. After discovering that his sister has run off with Harney, Buck and another family member battle the Shepherdsons in a gunfight and both Grangerfords are killed. …show more content…
The main aspect he satirizes is the feud itself. The Grangerfords represent the civilized culture; Twain exposes their cruelty and meaningless slaughter involved in their whimsical concept of honor. Twain believes that the feud goes against his sense judgment and therefore must be considered to be crazy
In particular, Twain satirizes the hypocrisy that exists in Christian communities, people who go to church are meant to practice love and grace, but in reality their lives are very different. This is obvious from the following quote when Huck and his new companions attend church.
“The men took their guns along, so did Buck, and kept them between their knees or stood them handy against the wall. The Shepherdsons done the saddddme. It was pretty ornery preaching--all about brotherly love, and such-like-tiredsomeness; but everybody said it was a good sermon, and they all talked it over going home, and had such a powerful lot to say about faith and good works and free …show more content…
One could say that the controversy between the Shepherdsons and Grangerfords is a humorous indirect reference to the dispute between the Montagues and the Capulets. Similar to the two families in the book Romeo and Juliet, Shepherdson and Grangerford families have forgotten what they are fighting over. Twain notifies the reader of this by using the conversation between Huck and Buck when Huck asks Buck why the two families were fighting ”Did you want to kill him Buck? Well, I bet I did What did he do to you? Him? He never done nothing to me. Well, what did you want to kill him for? Why nothing - only it’s on account of the feud.” Obviously, Mark Twain did his best to caricature the aristocrats of those times, who allowed themselves to slay one another. The fact that a Shepherdson fell in love with a Grangerford , which would seem to be ordinary, led to a bizarre
The Grangerfords have a son named Buck, who is about Huck's age, Buck and Huck become close friends over the next few days. Huck learns of the feud between the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons, but Buck Grangerford cannot tell him exactly how the feud started. No one in either family seems to know why the feud started.
One day Sophia Grangerford runs off with the enemy’s son whose name is Harney Shepherdson. After discovering that his sister has run off with Harney, Buck and another family member battle the Shepherdsons in a gunfight and both Grangerfords are killed. …show more content…
The main aspect he satirizes is the feud itself. The Grangerfords represent the civilized culture; Twain exposes their cruelty and meaningless slaughter involved in their whimsical concept of honor. Twain believes that the feud goes against his sense judgment and therefore must be considered to be crazy
In particular, Twain satirizes the hypocrisy that exists in Christian communities, people who go to church are meant to practice love and grace, but in reality their lives are very different. This is obvious from the following quote when Huck and his new companions attend church.
“The men took their guns along, so did Buck, and kept them between their knees or stood them handy against the wall. The Shepherdsons done the saddddme. It was pretty ornery preaching--all about brotherly love, and such-like-tiredsomeness; but everybody said it was a good sermon, and they all talked it over going home, and had such a powerful lot to say about faith and good works and free …show more content…
One could say that the controversy between the Shepherdsons and Grangerfords is a humorous indirect reference to the dispute between the Montagues and the Capulets. Similar to the two families in the book Romeo and Juliet, Shepherdson and Grangerford families have forgotten what they are fighting over. Twain notifies the reader of this by using the conversation between Huck and Buck when Huck asks Buck why the two families were fighting ”Did you want to kill him Buck? Well, I bet I did What did he do to you? Him? He never done nothing to me. Well, what did you want to kill him for? Why nothing - only it’s on account of the feud.” Obviously, Mark Twain did his best to caricature the aristocrats of those times, who allowed themselves to slay one another. The fact that a Shepherdson fell in love with a Grangerford , which would seem to be ordinary, led to a bizarre