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Anthony Moebest Eddie MacMurchy Adv. Comp 11 March 2013 Sad Tire in Huckle Berry Finn Do you like being made fun of? Of course not! Though making fun of things can be offensive and hurtful it does a good job of making a point. The writer, mark Twain uses satire in his book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to make a point about social mistakes and arbitrary rules that were social norms in the Antebellum South. Twain satirically criticizes the “ethics” and irony of slavery, superstition, and the family feud to show their pettiness and uselessness during his time. In the book, Twain criticizes slavery and the treatment of blacks in the antebellum south, Twain pokes fun at the fact people in his time can own slaves and consider themselves “right” in the eyes of God. Twain makes a realizing contrast when he when he says “by and by they fethched the niggers in and had prayers” Clearly Twain is poking fun at the notion that some can consider themselves in good standing with God and own slaves by contrasting a holy action such as prayer with a racial slur like “ nigger” in the same sentence. Twain Highlights the fact that racial slurs and rascim were deeply integrated within southern society. When describing Jim (Huckleberry Finn’s companion and runaway slave) another black slave calls jim a “runaway nigger” (Twain.)