Religion is one of the main victims of Twain's satire. The satire is visible when the Widow Douglas tells Huck about Moses. It is obvious that Huck does not care to know when Huck states, "Here she was a-bothering about moses, which was no kin to her, and no use to anybody, being gone, you see..." Later in the novel Huck realizes that prayer has never done anything good for him and he can not see that it has done anything for many others either. Through Huck, Twain is able to attack the blind faith that civilized society places towards religion.

The King and the Duke are perfect people for Twain to express his satire. They are frauds who make their money by ripping people off. Twain goes on to satirize human nature through the town's reaction to the Royal Nonesuch with the King and the Duke. Instead of running the frauds out of town as soon as they realized they were being robbed, the towns people let them stay and encouraged

Twain also uses satire to attack how fake civilized people can be. Twain expresses his feelings about fakes through the words of Huck Finn. “ And every woman, nearly, went up to the girls, without saying a word, and kissed them, solemn, on the forehead, and then put their hand on their head, and looked up towards the sky, with the tears running down, and then busted out and went off sobbing and swabbing, and give the next woman a show. I never see anything so disgusting.” Huck could not stand to see the people being so fake, and it made him sick to think that all the women were putting on a sob act for each other.

When Huck sneaks away to play with Tom Sawyer and his friends, the boys start a gang and decide that one of the things they will do is kidnap people and hold them for ransom. Since the boys do not know what the word ransom means they discover that they can not do that. Without a doubt all the boys believe Tom’s definition of ransom when he says, “But per’aps if we keep them till they’re ransomed, it means to keep them till they’re dead.” In this part of the novel, Twain uses satire to show that even though something may be truly wrong, if civilization or society believes it to be true, then it will be believed to be true by everyone else as well. Twain could have been hinting towards the way people feel about slavery in this instance of satire. Slavery was wrong bu

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