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Mark Twain

Mark Twain. Tristan Smith. PBS.org. Humor and satire are a big component in many of Mark Twains works. Google Images. Shmoop Media.

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Mark Twain

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  1. Mark Twain Tristan Smith PBS.org

  2. Humor and satire are a big component in many of Mark Twains works. Google Images Shmoop Media

  3. Throughout Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain uses satire to attack what he sees as the hypocritical views of the midwestern society. Nothing is sacred to his words, especially not slavery, politics, human nature or religion. From the first chapter with Miss Watson's preaching about heaven and hell to the performance of the Royal Nonesuch to the dramatic escape planned for Jim, Twain infuses the story with satire to the detriment of our opinion of the river society he is describing. (Jann’s Huck Finn journal) Google Images

  4. Twain employed his exposure to early Southwestern humor in his writing through a blending of its facets into his own style (etext virginia) Google Images

  5. Huck is quick to point out the hypocrisy of Widow Douglas’ admonition that he should not smoke tobacco while she herself uses snuff (online-literature) And next time Jim told it he said they rode him down to New Orleans; and, after that, every time he told it he spread it more and more, till by and by he said they rode him all over the world, and tired him most to death, and his back was all over saddle-boils (online-literature). Google Images

  6. I practiced around all day to getthe hang of the things, and by and by I could dopretty well in them, only Jim said I didn't walk like agirl; and he said I must quit pulling up my gown toget at my britches-pocket. I took notice, and donebetter (online-literature) Siberian Reader

  7. "What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?" (Chapter 16) One morning I happened to turn over the salt-cellar at ... breakfast. I reached for some of it as quick as I could to throw over my left shoulder and keep off the bad luck, but Miss Watson was in ahead of me, and crossed me off. She says, "Take your hands away, Huckleberry; what a mess you are always making!” (Chapter 4) Google Images

  8. Then the old man got to cussing and cussed everything and everybody he could think of, and then cussed them all over again to make sure he hadn't skipped any, and after that he polished off with a kind of a general cuss all round, including a considerable parcel of people which he didn't know the names of, and so called them what's-his-name when he got to them, and went right along with his cussing. (allgreatquotes). Google Images

  9. I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can’t stand it. I been there before.(allgreatquotes) Google Images

  10. "Pray for me! I reckoned if she knowed me she'd take a job that was more nearer her size. But I bet she done it, just the same--she was just that kind. She had the grit to pray for Judus if she took the notion--there warn't no back-down to her, I judge.“ (classiclit) Google immages

  11. The characters of the Duke and King are excellent tools for Twain's satire. Through them he chides small time criminals and all the people they dupe. (Jann’s huck finn journal) The dramatic escape planned for Jim goes almost too far in its efforts at satire. The whole thing becomes so complicated and convoluted that it makes most the books ending seem beyond belief. (jann’s huck finn journal) Google images

  12. The family needed Jim’s help to complete a task that they could not do on their own, so they went to the shed, unshackled him briefly, asked him to help them, and then returned him to the shed. In this moment, Jim has the chance to escape but does not, and the ridiculousness of the situation is exposed through this ironic exchange between the captive Jim and his temporary masters. (articlemyrad) Yahoo Images

  13. 'I bet you can't spell my name,' says I. 'I bet you what you dare I can', says he. 'All right,' says I, 'go ahead.' 'G-e-o-r-g-e J-a-x-o-n-there now,' he says. 'Well,' says I, 'you done it, but I didn't think you could. It ain't no slouch of a name to spell-right off without studying.' I set down, private, because somebody might want me to spell it next, and so I wanted to be handy with it and rattle it off like I was used to it." -Pg. 103 Ironically, Buck misspells Huck's pseudonym, and Huck memorizes the misspelling in case someone asks him about it. (gradesaver) Yahoo Images

  14. "'Set down, my boy; I wouldn't strain myself if I was you. I reckon you ain't used to lying, it don't seem to come handy; what you want is practice. You do it pretty awkward.'" -Pg. 196 Throughout the novel, Huck has survived through lies and dishonesty. Here, he is in the middle of telling one lie when caught in another. (gradesaver) Yahoo Images

  15. "Then at the bottom was the biggest line of all, which said: LADIES AND CHILDREN NOT ADMITTED 'There,' says he, 'if that line don't fetch them, I don't know Arkansaw!' -Pg. 150 The duke recognizes and profits from the locals' ignorance and attraction to crass humor. Google Images

  16. Jim was most ruined for a servant, because he got stuck up on account of having seen the devil and been rode by witches. (allgreatquotes) Google Images

  17. Well, den, dey ain't no sense in a cat talkin' like a man. Is a cow a man? – er is a cow a cat?""No, she ain't either of them.""Well, den, she ain't got no business to talk like either one er the yuther of 'em. Is a Frenchman a man?""Yes.""WELL, den! Dad blame it, why doan' he TALK like a man? You answer me DAT!"I see it warn't no use wasting words – you can't learn a nigger to argue. So I quit (Schmoop) Google Images

  18. Overall satire is a key defining feature of Huckleberry Finn and Twain makes good use of it to poke fun at American and especially midwestern society. (jann’s huck finn journal) While the end is still very funny, it is less subtle and the overkill on the satire makings the reading even tedious at points. (jann’s huck finn journal) Google Images

  19. "'But answer me only jest this one more-now don't get mad; didn't you have it in your mind to hook the money and hide it?' • The duke never said nothing for a little bit; then he says: • 'Well, I don't care if I did, I didn't do it, anyway. But you not only had it in mind to do it, but you done it.'" -Pg. 203 • The duke seems guilty about even wanting to commit the crime, while the king, who committed the act, is accusatory(gradesaver) Google Images

  20. Works Cited "Huckleberry Finn Quotes, Famous Huckleberry Finn Quotes, Huckleberry Finn Sayings Quotations." Famous Quotes, Great Quotes. Web. 14 Jan. 2012. <http://www.allgreatquotes.com/adventures_of_huckleberry_finn_quotes.shtml>. Huck Finn. Web. 14 Jan. 2012. <http://siberianreader.blogspot.com>. "Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Search EText, Read Online, Study, Discuss." The Literature Network: Online Classic Literature, Poems, and Quotes. Essays & Summaries. Web. 14 Jan. 2012. <http://www.online-literature.com/twain/huckleberry_finn/>. • Citation added: • "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Race Quotes Page 1." Shmoop: Homework Help, Teacher Resources, Test Prep. Web. 14 Jan. 2012. <http://www.shmoop.com/huckleberry-finn/race-quotes.html>. "Samuel Langhorne Clemens." University of Virginia Library. Web. 14 Jan. 2012. <http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/projects/price/atwain.htm>. Twain, Mark, and Donald McKay. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1948. Print "'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' Quotes." Books & Literature Classics. Web. 14 Jan. 2012. <http://classiclit.about.com/od/adventuresofhuckleberry/a/aa_huckfinn.htm>. "Satire in Huck Finn." Jann's Huck Finn Journal. Web. 14 Jan. 2012. <http://jannon.tripod.com/critsati.html>. "Class and Satire in “The American” by Henry James and “Huck Finn” by Mark Twain." Article Myriad. Web. 14 Jan. 2012. <http://www.articlemyriad.com/class-satire-american-huck-finn/>. "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Study Guide : Irony | GradeSaver." Study Guides & Essay Editing | GradeSaver. Web. 14 Jan. 2012. <http://www.gradesaver.com/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn/study-guide/section10/>.

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