The Adventures Of Huck Finn: Satire
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The Adventures of Huck Finn Satire
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written in the vernacular form by Mark Twain, captures many examples of satire throughout the book. Satire is the technique that employs wit to ridicule a subject, usually some social institution, with the intention to inspire r ....
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.... of the other old people; but they don't know what the row was about in the first place."' (108)
Another demonstration of satire is played in superstition. Here, Jim and Huck are very superstitious with a rattlesnake skin. Earlier in the book, Huck touches a rattlesnake skin, and Jim stops him from handling it before he gets bad luck: "And he said that handling a snake-skin was such awful bad luck that maybe we hadn't got to the end of it yet, He said he druther see the new moon over his left sh ....
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