On first, Mark Twain satirizes the Legal system of The United States of America. Although the townsfolk know of Pap's drunkenness, abuse, lack of education, and overall poor character, the court gives him custody because he is the biological …show more content…
This is obvious through the episode of the two family feud; The Grangerfords and Shepherdsons' family, in fact have been fighting for so long but over something so unnecessary that sometimes they forget what exactly they were fighting for. In the Civil War's case, it was slavery. Twain is showing that the Civil War escalated into something so violent, with so many deaths over a long period of time, but it could have been settled if the people had just been a little more moralistic. By that episode Mark Twain clearly States that slaves as the other American are fighting for their independence as did the founding fathers, and because they are as all American their fight is for no reason and in normal conditions should have been free since the