Huck Finn
In 1884, Samuel Clemens, writing under the pen name of Mark Twain, published The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a follow-up to his first successful novel Tom Sawyer. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn quickly became a highly controversial novel due to its negative views of the South and the use of the word “nigger.” Putting these two critical views aside, readers can find The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to be a realistic and meaningful novel, as it was meant to be. One of the many elements that Mark Twain included in the novel to make it successful was satire. There are many examples of satire in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The most noticeble and important examples are the character Tom Sawyer, who satirizes Romanticism throughout the novel, the character Emmeline Grangerford, who satirizes Dark Romanticism through her poems and crayon drawings that Huck Finn discovers in the story, and the feud between the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons which satirizes......
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