Term Papers on The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

Term Paper Title	The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Through the effective use of irony and satire in his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain exposes the hypocrisy inherent within the major social institutions of pre-civil war America. Twain also uses irony and satire to lessen society’s views on slavery beliefs, education, and religion.

In this novel, Twain belittles the idea of the society’s view on slavery. When Pap stated that that he was going to go vote if he warn’t too drunk to get there, but then he found out that there was a state that would let a nigger vote, so he had to draw out. The irony in this statement was that Pap was never sober enough to go and vote. The other ironic thing was that the "nigger" that was allowed to vote, was a lot more intelligent than Pap would ever be. It was just the color of his skin that made him be looked down on. When Huck starts to think about how he is the reason that Jim will go free, it starts to get on his conscience and bug him. Huck has been raised in the society that owning a person to be your slave is morally correct. So after he realizes that he is doing something that Miss Watson wouldn’t like, he thinks twice about it. He has to decide whether he wants to go by what society and Miss Watson would want him to do or to follow his heart and help Jim out. He writes a letter to Miss Watson to try and help out his decision. When he decides to rip up the letter, he feels that he has done the wrong thing and is going to hell for it, but that is what he wants because Jim is now a friend. Twain also tries to portray Jim as a better man than most white men. Huck even makes a comment to himself that Jim is almost white inside. He realizes that Jim has feelings like everyone else; and he even has a family of his own.
Education is also one of the things that Mark Twain liked to pick at and make it seem different. Although Buck intends to compliment Emmeline’s poetry by saying she can rattle off without even thinking, but his compliment shows how they down play education. Huck makes a statement, "I’ve bee...

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