Quotes About Misleading Huckleberry Finn Analysis

Navonne Johns once expressed, “A person’s character is shown through their actions in life not where they sit on Sunday” (Quoted in “Quotes About Misleading” 1). Mark Twain shows this religious bigotry through his depiction of the Grangerford and Shepardson family. The two families come to church, and listen to a sermon on brotherly love, while in the next day, kill one another. Contributing to this example, Twain mocks religion through The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with his satirical attacks on organized religion versus religious beliefs, which contributes to the theme of spiritual hypocrisy. Mark Twain ridicules religion in the works of his characters’ actions and beliefs throughout the novel. His first depiction of religion begins
Widow Douglas gave hints that Moses was not alive, every now and then, so Huck began to stop caring because he does not, “take no stock in dead people” (Twain 2). In this instance, Twain makes fun of the Bible and how the whole testament is composed of perished characters. In addition to the author making fun of the Bible, he continues to insult religion by mocking prayers. about The members of Huck’s town went on a search party for him, and they sent out tools to find the boy. The townspeople used bread with tubes of mercury inside to see if Huck’s body sunk in the river. Huckleberry believes that “somebody prayed that this bread would find [him]”, he assumes an individual needs live a virtuous life to recieve answered prayers, someone “like the widow or the parson prays, but it don’t work for me” (Twain 28). Mark Twain also includes satirical elements in this
The onset of the book focuses heavily on religious aspects. Twain portrays humor to show Huck’s young perceptions of religion in the beginning. For instance, Miss Watson tells Huck all about the good place, otherwise known as heaven, and that she wants to end up there. Twain here uses humor with Huck’s silent response, Huck did not see any benefit in going to the same place as Miss Watson, “so [Huck] made up [his] mind [he] wouldn’t try for it” (Twain 2). The author uses the literary element of satire to poke at religious individuals and their beliefs that they need to end up going to heaven. Later on in the story, Twain ridicules church and members of the church. The author uses the Grangerford and Shepardson families to render his mockery of the church. The feuding families, the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons, both came to church routinely and they set the guns under the pews, this particular sermon was “all about brotherly love” (Twain 83). This displays irony because the two families are feuding, but they listened to a sermon about having love for neighbors and family when they fight over issues they cannot even reckon. The Grangerfords also discussed how they thought “it was a good sermon” and what it means to do “good works, and free grace” (Twain 83). Twain shows the hypocrisy of church-goers and how it does not matter if