Twain wrote a lot about the south, most of it was to inform people, but at the same time satirizing it. Twain sees the south calling themselves civilized, but when really they are not. He is saying that people should be out and about, doing jobs or services for each other, and cleaning the place up, so it looks like a real civilized society, which the south was not doing. Twain describes how pathetic the town is, when they are pushing out Native Americans out of the way calling them uncivilized, when they them themselves think tha

Ignorance was a major weakness in the south; this was one element of satire that was abundant in the book. In the story, there were people giving Huck money, without looking of much a reason for handing him the money. There were some people that earned a living on the ignorance of others, like the King and the Dauphin holding a play, that wasn’t anywhere near accurate, just so people can see a play, and pretend to be cultural. The people of the south would act without thinking about what they are doing. Twain wanted to see a person actually looking information up on the play, who was staring in it, what kind of credentials they have. Or the ferry boat operator, taking the time to look in his boat and not be so trustful with Huck, and not to just hand over money to him. The book did a good job showing how unaware people were about how they were being scammed out of their money. But if people are going to be that ignorant, maybe they should be scammed.

Twain saw a lot of

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