Slavery
What is the mode of the satire? (Exaggeration, incongruity, reversal, or parody)
Example 1: “He would go to saving up money and never spending a single cent, and when he got enough he would buy his wife, which was owned on a farm close to where miss Watson lived; and then they both would work to buy the two children” (pg 89). Jim wants to buy his family back so that they can finally live a nice life where they can see everybody for the first time. They just want to be a family again. This is incongruity because it represents what the blacks were thinking when they got free, trying to save their loved ones.
Example 2: “ I had a good as helped to run away; coming right out flat-footed and saying saying he would steal his children- children that belonged to a man I didn't even know; a man that hasn't ever done me no harm”(pg 81). When Huck finds out about this he does not think that it is right, because he thinks that they belong to the owner that bought them. But Jim wants to just get his family back. This is incongruity because it shows what a white person was thinking when a slave broke out and was trying to save his family.
What is the social commentary?
The social commentary is that Jim the one that is a slave wants to get his family back, but in order for him to do that he needs to buy his family. So he wants to save up …show more content…
“ I’d feel bad- i’d feel just the same way I do now. Well, then, says I, what’s the use you learning to do the right when it’s troublesome to do right, and ain’t no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?(pg 92) He does not whether to do the right thing or the wrong thing, but whatever he does he will still feel guilty. This is incongruity because It shows that he does not know what to do and that he is thinking in the future to try and find out what to
What is the mode of the satire? (Exaggeration, incongruity, reversal, or parody)
Example 1: “He would go to saving up money and never spending a single cent, and when he got enough he would buy his wife, which was owned on a farm close to where miss Watson lived; and then they both would work to buy the two children” (pg 89). Jim wants to buy his family back so that they can finally live a nice life where they can see everybody for the first time. They just want to be a family again. This is incongruity because it represents what the blacks were thinking when they got free, trying to save their loved ones.
Example 2: “ I had a good as helped to run away; coming right out flat-footed and saying saying he would steal his children- children that belonged to a man I didn't even know; a man that hasn't ever done me no harm”(pg 81). When Huck finds out about this he does not think that it is right, because he thinks that they belong to the owner that bought them. But Jim wants to just get his family back. This is incongruity because it shows what a white person was thinking when a slave broke out and was trying to save his family.
What is the social commentary?
The social commentary is that Jim the one that is a slave wants to get his family back, but in order for him to do that he needs to buy his family. So he wants to save up …show more content…
“ I’d feel bad- i’d feel just the same way I do now. Well, then, says I, what’s the use you learning to do the right when it’s troublesome to do right, and ain’t no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?(pg 92) He does not whether to do the right thing or the wrong thing, but whatever he does he will still feel guilty. This is incongruity because It shows that he does not know what to do and that he is thinking in the future to try and find out what to