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Amanda Bray
Hennessey
Huck Finn Essay
18 March, 2013
Wit and Satire Wit and Satire
In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, wit and satire are used a lot. Some might believe that they are not used effectively, but I believe that they are. Although it may be a little overdone, it is necessary to understand the way that people thought about other races.
Wit and satire are two ways to lighten up and get out of tense or troublesome situations. Wit is the keen perception and cleverly apt. expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure; while satire is the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule or the like, in exposing, denouncing or deriding vice, folly. Huck uses his wits a lot in this book to get out of situations that he gets himself stuck in. And he uses satire and mockery to make light of tense situations or when he feels overanxious and white-knuckled.
Huck uses his wits to make sure Jim does not get caught by saying:
“When we was ready to shove off we was a quarter of a mile below the island, and it was pretty broad day; so I made Jim lay down in the canoe and cover up with a quilt, because if he set up people could tell he was a nigger a good ways off. “ (Twain 54)
By using satire, Huck makes fun of a snake bite by comparing it to Pap’s whiskey:
“When we was ready to shove off we was a quarter of a mile below the island, and it was pretty broad day; so I made Jim lay down in the canoe and cover up with a quilt, because if he set up people could tell he was a nigger a good ways off. “ (Twain 54)
He also uses satire to describe what a situation would be like by saying:
“When we was ready to shove off we was a quarter of a mile below the island, and it was pretty broad day; so I made Jim lay down in the canoe and cover up with a quilt, because if he set up people could tell he was a nigger a good ways off. “ (Twain 54)
In chapter 39, Huck uses his wits when trying to free Jim by sending anonymous letters to the family that is...
Hennessey
Huck Finn Essay
18 March, 2013
Wit and Satire Wit and Satire
In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, wit and satire are used a lot. Some might believe that they are not used effectively, but I believe that they are. Although it may be a little overdone, it is necessary to understand the way that people thought about other races.
Wit and satire are two ways to lighten up and get out of tense or troublesome situations. Wit is the keen perception and cleverly apt. expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure; while satire is the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule or the like, in exposing, denouncing or deriding vice, folly. Huck uses his wits a lot in this book to get out of situations that he gets himself stuck in. And he uses satire and mockery to make light of tense situations or when he feels overanxious and white-knuckled.
Huck uses his wits to make sure Jim does not get caught by saying:
“When we was ready to shove off we was a quarter of a mile below the island, and it was pretty broad day; so I made Jim lay down in the canoe and cover up with a quilt, because if he set up people could tell he was a nigger a good ways off. “ (Twain 54)
By using satire, Huck makes fun of a snake bite by comparing it to Pap’s whiskey:
“When we was ready to shove off we was a quarter of a mile below the island, and it was pretty broad day; so I made Jim lay down in the canoe and cover up with a quilt, because if he set up people could tell he was a nigger a good ways off. “ (Twain 54)
He also uses satire to describe what a situation would be like by saying:
“When we was ready to shove off we was a quarter of a mile below the island, and it was pretty broad day; so I made Jim lay down in the canoe and cover up with a quilt, because if he set up people could tell he was a nigger a good ways off. “ (Twain 54)
In chapter 39, Huck uses his wits when trying to free Jim by sending anonymous letters to the family that is...