Huckleberry Finn Religious Analysis

Mark Twain uses his novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, to satirize many problems facing american society; by religion, civilization, and racism , to prove a point and change what the reader will think.Twain strikes religion to prove its foreign relevance to people. He makes fun of the idiocy and gullibility of society. He also makes fun of the way people use history as excuses to be racist to each other. Twain initially satirizes the vast idiotic problems that are in Huckleberry Finn's world, as well as ours.

During the life of Huck, with Mrs. Watson, Huck was greatly influenced by her “Good Motives” which turned out to be religion and chewing tobacco. Although Mrs. Watson had tabaco problems her lessons to huck about religion had
Humans have lived a life of having slaves and memories, which continues as a reason for White people to hate colored. For example, “When I got down out of the tree I crept along down the river bank a piece, and found the two bodies laying in the edge of the water, and tugged at them till I got them ashore; then I covered up their faces, and got away as quickly as I could. I cried a little when I was covering up Buck’s Face, for he was mighty good to me.” (Twain 119) Not that Huck doesn’t hate the other person, he just doesn't acknowledge the slave's life. When the reader reads this passage it's evident that Twain expresses the feud of the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons as a stupid matter. For instance, slavery is expressed as something they use past memories/ events as excuses to hate others.Twain not only satirizes how people are idiots for using this method of hatred, but also to display that in the future it will continue the same path. People initially remain idiotic fools. Now that religion, racism and stupidity come together, it is evident that people are all idiots and that they should find their own way of