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Mark Twain
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: a Novel of Social Protest

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Examines Mark Twain's use of satire in his novel The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn. Discusses Twain's objection to certain aspects of society that he disagreed with.

"Well, if I ever struck anything like it, I'm a nigger. It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race," Huckleberry Finn remarked to himself and the reader after witnessing the king and the duke, two perfect representatives of the evils of society, conning an entire town and a family of poor orphan girls (Twain, 164). Using statements like this, Huck Finn made it blatantly clear that he often experienced disgust for the society he lived in. Having sprung the character of Huck Finn and all his opinions right out of his own mind, Mark Twain crafted the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a weapon in his war of social protest.

From the beginning of the novel, Twain embedded his opinions of society into the protagonist and particular events or actions in.....

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