During the time period in which The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is written, religion is an integral part of civilization. Huck’s guardian, Widow Douglas, preaches to him about Moses. Huck didn’t think much of her lecture. He says, “Here she was a bothering about Moses, which was no kin to her, and no use to anybody, being gone you see” (Twain3). Twain speaks, through Huck, declaring religion, at least a

s it was taught, to be irrelevant to the average person's life. Not much later Huck finds that prayer has never done him any good, and he can't see that it has helped many others either. Through Huck's eyes we see that Twain opposes the blind faith put in the church teachings. He also finds that religion's supposed altruistic spirit clashes with the reality of our self-motivated human nature, as Huck clearly illustrates this through his constant remarks that he doesn't see what's in it (religion) for him. Twain uses Huck to exhibit his objection to the blind faith that civilized society places towards religion.

Overall satire is a key defining feature of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Twain makes good use of it to poke fun at American society. Twain uses the characters in the novel to pass valuable messages, one of which is, being “don’t judge a book by its cover.” Mark Twain chose to satirize religion, civilization, and mo

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