Huck Finn Hypocrisy Analysis

In the book Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, who tells a story about a boy who helps a runaway slave. Twain’s main character, Huck, goes against society by helping his friend Jim. satirizes the idea of hypocrisy in society by using the satirical devices of verbal irony, incongruity, and hyperbole.

Twain uses the idea of hypocrisy in society by using verbal irony because it gives a better idea of hypocrisy in society. When Jim buys a cow from the stock (45). A black slave is not supposed to have enough money to buy a cow, they are supposed to be low class and poor. Twain also uses the example "There warn't nothing to do now but to look out sharp for the town, and not pass it without seeing it. He said he'd be mighty sure to see it, because he'd be a free man the minute he seen it, but if he missed it he'd be in a slave country again and no more show for freedom." (91-92). Jim believes he will be free only if they runaway from Mrs.Watson who wants to sell him. Jim bases his self-worth on the dollar, and it seems that "freedom" is not a state of mind, but rather a state of the Union.

Twain also uses incongruity to satirize the idea of hypocrisy in society because it makes us see that two things seem weird. “Goodness
“ I thought of a way, so I offered them Miss. Watson-they could kill her.” (8). This is shows that Huck and Tom and the rest of the gang are ok to kill just a random person for no reason at all. “Oh yes, pa knows I reckon, and some of the other old people; but they know now what the row was about in the first place.” (104). Buck is not sure how the feud started and he was trying to say that it was not that bad, but when it actually started that there was some guys killing each other for no reason. No one knows how the feud but they are ok with killing guys because everyone else was doing