Twain’s Satire The novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is set back when slavery was legal and when Huckleberry Finn befriends a African American slave named Jim which Huck helps to free himself and Jim towards the North. Throughout there journey Twain uses themes which are about race, morality and ethnics, rules and order, lies and deceit, religion, friendship, youth, foolishness and folly, man and the natural world, the supernatural, family, and drugs and alcohol. Twain uses satire along with these themes to ridicule society for hypocrisy, racism, and cruelty. Twain starts with hypocrisy once the book is started using Huck Finn and Miss Watson, a women that adopted Huck Finn. Huck Finn criticizes the widow, Miss Watson, since she chews and won’t let Huck smoke. Her reason being that she thinks smoking is a mean practice and isn’t clean. She pretends to have good practice and was clean by being critical towards Huck. Twain uses this to criticize society in a way others look down on people who make bad decisions but don’t look down bad at themselves for there own bad decisions. Twains uses satire mostly on racial debates in society. The stories Huck tells provide mini-allegories about slavery and race. Huck tells the tale of King Solomon, who threatened to chop a baby in half. Jim argues that Solomon had so many children that he became unable to value human life properly. Huck’s story leads to compare Jim’s assessment, of what he achieved. This criticizes racisms in that Americans do wrong and African Americans can achieve just as much or even more then Americans. Twain uses satire through characters also. One character that is symbolic as cruel, that is the character Pap. Pap was Huck’s abusive, alcoholic, and greedy father. Through out the story Huck would mention his fathers neglects towards Huck. Actions such as chase him around with a knife since he was so drunk he didn’t know who his own son was. This is known as cruelty and Twain also...