Tom Sawyer White Fencing Humorism Analysis

“There's only one thing better than the cutest cat in the world. Any Dog” Daniel Tosh. Daniel Tosh is a comedy who is self centered, cocky, arrogant, patronizing, but yet outspoken fun guy to be around. At the end of the day he gets his idea across that what most people are doing in society or in politics aren’t good things. He is a lot like Mark Twain of this generation. Mark Twain would also take jabs at politicians and social issues that he didn’t agree with. He did this while using humor. This is why Mark Twain was successful as a humorist because of his writing is relatable with the reader by showing common people flaws in their morals views and actions.
In Tom Sawyer White Fencing story, Mark Twain used humor because he wanted his writing …show more content…
In the story there is a slave named Jim. Tom tries to switch chores but the slave Jim refuses. He then say “Ih, I dasn’t, Mars Tom. Ole missis she’d take an’ tar de head off’n me. ‘Deed she would.”(Fence 1). This remark is aimed towards slavery. Even in a humoristic way Twain uses the dialect of one of his characters who is a slave to expose how evil slavery is. He thinks by the South having slaves for free labor, beating them, and treating them less than human is an injustice by the South. He uses his humor to expose the injustice of South and slavery. He shows this by using Tom Sawyer predicament of not wanting to his chores and trying to switch with the slave named Jim to do the easier one. He is showing us the injustice so that the future generation and current generation will not do the same mistake that the old generation of the South does. He wants the world to be a better place and by doing so he writes story so that everyone can learn for this and not do the same mistakes. Therefore Twain use of humor showed how the South and slavery is an injustice by using Jim and Tom Sawyer hilarious dialogue to represent this idea so that the other generations will not do the same evil as the old South