Huck Finn
Satire in Huck Finn
In the first few chapters of Huckleberry Finn, we can see traces of satirical elements begin to emerge from within the story. The very first satirical scene occurs after Tom plays a trick on Jim, Miss Watson's slave. Huck goes on to describe how Jim reacts to finding his hat hung on a limb above his head. "Afterwards Jim said the witches bewitched him and put him in a trance, and rode him all over the State, and then set him under the trees again and hung his hat on a limb to show who done it." This note that Huck makes may have served a humorous purpose during older times, when Blacks were stereotypically superstitious. This also shows Jim's gullibility and is referred to later on in the story.
In the first eleven chapters of the story, the only evident character and element in the story being satirized is Jim and the simple stereotypes of an African American living in Finn's and Clemens' time. Jim is once again satirized in chapter ten, where he is......
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