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The Adventures of Huck Finn Satire The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written in the vernacular form by Mark Twain, captures many examples of satire throughout the book. Satire is the technique that employs wit to ridicule a subject, usually some social instituti ....

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.... the row was about in the first place."' (108) Another demonstration of satire is played in superstition. Here, Jim and Huck are very superstitious with a rattlesnake skin. Earlier in the book, Huck touches a rattlesnake skin, and Jim stops him from handling it before he gets bad luck: "And he said that handling a snake-skin was such awful bad luck that maybe we hadn't got to the end of it yet, He said he druther see the new moon over his left shoulder as much as a thousand times than take up a snake skin in his left hand." (53) Chapter XXV, All Full of Tears and Flapdoodle spotlights the use of satire in grief. Here, the Duke and the King pretend to b ....