"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"

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The paper relates that Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is a novel of great acclaim but also of great controversy. The paper discusses how this work embodies ideologies of the day, utilizing satire to demonstrate Twain's ideas about the institutions of his day. The paper notes the argument that the satire is a poor guise for the demonstratively racist ideas that Twain does not counter in his statements about the world as he sees it.

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"The satire most often addressed, with the regard to the work is the attachment of the most comical and literarily powerless of individuals with the words that demonstrate a desire for redress of social construct. The language of the novel demonstrates a call to question the authority of the ideas that are being issues through pejorative terms like "nigger," the most complicated and controversial of all of Twain's term tactics appearing at least ninety times (in singular only) within the text, in both positive and negative connotations."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Henry, Peaches. "The Struggle for Tolerance." Satire or Evasion?: Black Perspectives on Huckleberry Finn. Ed. James S. Leonard, Thomas A. Tenney, and Thadious M. Davis. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1992. 25-48.
• Jackson, Barbara L. "Debating Huck Finn." College Teaching 38.2 (1990): 63-66.
• Lynch, Paul. "Not Trying to Talk Alike and Succeeding: The Authoritative Word and Internally-Persuasive Word in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn." Studies in the Novel 38.2 (2006): 172. <http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5015994873>.
• Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1918.

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