... Twain. This satiric intent is a marvelous education tool that can be used in public schools. Twain did not intend for most of the passages in Huck Finn to be taken literally; rather Twain uses this dialogue ironically as a way to emphasize the alarming truth about the old South. This is clearly demonstrated in the scene in which Aunt Sally hears about a steamboat explosion ... of its citizens. A scholar named Shelly Fisher Fishkin states that Twain is, "Playing with how you use humor and satire to shame people into seeing how stupid and inexcusable racism is" (qtd. In "Born to Trouble)....

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... the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and label Mark Twain as a racist. However, with a deep examination of Twain's novel, people would come to the conclusion that Twain is not a racist, but instead an astonishing writer who was unfortunately raised in a racist society. Twain a racist? The answers to these questions lie in the examination of Mark Twain's life and historical era, incidents and character comments throughout ... , sah--I doan "budge a step out"n dis place, "dout a doctor; not if it's forty year!" (Twain, 264) through closer examination of Huckleberry Finn, it is revealed that ...

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