Huckleberry Finn Humor Analysis

Huck Finn Up Close and Personal The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a prestigious book that dates back to being written nearly two decades after the writing and signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, and post Civil War in America. Now the Civil War having just ended there was still an equality and racial inequality that dividing the people. Even during this bittersweet moment in the country, Twain still manages to add a bit of humor in his story. Twain’s humor takes up a multidimensionality of range and character in this book. Here lies a society that is still trying to accommodate to the new change of equality, but they still haven’t gotten to that accommodating part fully yet. Huck Finn will go through a society where one small single step in a positive direction will bring about an effect no one saw coming. To begin with, Twain uses a ton of subtle humor in this specific area of his work. Most of this humor is displayed through irony, many times pertaining to that specific event that is taking place. In chapter five, when Pap makes an appearance in Huck’s …show more content…
You understand how each character is going through their own post-war syndrome. We get to see how Twain uses humor in his book, and how he applies it to that society. We understand why Twain uses humor in his works, and how he ties real life to the characters at some point, whether it be through setting, time, or even the characters. We also notice how he applies a sort of dilemma, that ties to a certain aspect of that society. Twain shows how the role of family, an important role, is abused and how that affects the child and the parent, but not only them but their lives as well. Huck Finn is an incredible story that really gives you a glimpse of what life was like during that specific time, from racism and slavery to political and economical