... of expression that ridicules the short-comings of people or institutions in an attempt to bring about change. The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is full of satires. It was written during the realism period after the Civil War and in this novel Mark Twain satirizes romanticism, religious hypocrisy, and racism. The first satire is religious hypocrisy. Twain used the Grangerford-Shepherdson feud to portray this issue. Mark Twain wrote, "The ... men took their gun [to church] and kept them between their knees or stood them handily against the ... people during this time were hypocr...

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