Examples Of Satire In Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain is a tremendous instance of a satire that Twain uses to mock different aspects of the society that he doesn't like. The novel has many adventures see through the eyes of, Huckleberry Finn, a disorderly young boy, and Jim, who is a runaway slave. In the novel, Twain utilizes Huck to satirize the god-fearing hypocrites, white people's stereotypes, and credulity both to entertain the reader and to make the us conscious of the social problems of that time period.
One of the main victims of Twain's satire is belief in a higher power. In the book, Twain used different situations to make fun of beliefs in religion. Twain uses the issues between Grangerfords and Shepherdsons to point out issues in
Twain satirizes caucasian communities stereotypes in an attempt to diplomatically make fun of black people. Huck's childhood teaching taught him that slavery is an aspect of the natural order. Which caused him to not find anything wrong with the unfair treatment of slaves. At first in Huck and Jim's adventures Huck thinks of Jim as unlike himself. He tells him when he said, "when we was ready to shove off we was a quarter of a mile below the island, and it was pretty broad day; so I made Jim lay down in the canoe and cover up with a quilt, because if he set up people could tell he was a nigger a good ways off." (Twain 51) Now, Huck makes an incorrect assumption that people can see colored people from a mile away. He still believes that “niggers” are necessarily distinct from white people. One more piece of evidence of this is when Huckleberry speaks of Jim, he said, "he judged it was all up with him anyway it could be fixed; for if he didn't t get saved he would get drowned; and if he did get saved, whoever saved him would send him back home so as to get the reward, and then Miss Watson would sell him South, sure. Well, he was right; he was most always right; he had an uncommon head level head for a nigger." (Twain 76) There, Huckleberry thinks that colored people aren't as intelligent as whites. Yet again an example of a ordinary stereotypes of their era. Mark Twain uses Jim
Jim talks about a wide variation of superstitions from when Huck meets him on Jackson's Island until the end of the book. In the beginning, Huck doesn't like many of Jim's beliefs sees them as silly, but in the end he comes to be appreciative of Jim's vast understanding of the earth. Eventually Mark Twain mocks superstitions by telling, when Tom plays a trick on Jim as he sleeps, with his hat above him on a tree. He tries to explain where his hat went, Jim said, "Afterwards Jim said the witches be witched him and put him in a trance, and rode him all over the State, and then set him under the trees again, and hung his hat on a limb to show who done it." (Twain 6) There, Twain mocks the boys for their fascination with the supernatural by try to show a confused Jim trying to give a proper explanation of what happened to his hat. One more example of superstitious is when Twain writes, "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 shoulder as much as a thousand times than take up a snake-skin in his hand." (Twain 53) Across the book, playing with a dead snake-skin is noted as” a sign of bad luck” and gets Jim and Huck into all sorts of “bad luck” escapades. More examples of superstitious is when Twain writes, "Some young birds come along, flying a yard or two at a time and lighting. Jim