... so long. However, Mark Twain uses his novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, to reveal and poke fun of many problems facing American society. Satire, which is irony, sarcasm, or caustic wit used to attack or expose folly, vice, or stupidity, is the key tool in which he demonstrates many of the problems that plague civilization today. In the beginning of the story, Huck sneaks away from his home to play ... is commenting through satire in the form of gullibility, on mans capacity for blind faith. The progression of a satire is also showed here, in the beginning of the novel the boys ...

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