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Satire is the use of irony or sarcasm to expose vice or folly. Mark Twain, the author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was a very talented writer and use's satire a great deal in the novel. This novel is not only an adventure story but also a comedy in th ....

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.... Ain't I right?" This is a very good example of Twain satirizing the idiocy and cruelty of society in general. The man is so misguided that he thinks it's a lesser crime to let a man drown than to just plain kill him Twain a lot of the time makes fun of how whites perceived blacks or how blacks thought of whites. "He judged it was all up with him any way it could be fixed; for if he didn't get saved he would get drownded; and if he did get saved, whoever saved him would send him back home so as to get the reward, and then Miss Watson would sell him South, sure. Well, he was right; he was most always right; he had an uncommon level headed for a n ....