... the novel the Shepherdsons killed Bud who was a Grangerfords. The family accepts the death and Col. Grangerson motivates his kids to kill a Shepherdson as soon as they can. When one Buck, a Grangerford, sees Harney, a Shepherdson, in the woods he shoots at him. He tried to kill him but he did not succeed. When ... Buck returned home, he told his father what had happened and he encouraged him to next time get a better shot and jump out of the bushes. The family feud ends in ... the novel at the log store and woodpile. The Shephersons had killed Buck's father and his two brothers. When H...

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... . Twain writes with dramatic irony by helping the reader realize what is happening before the characters in the story does. A very humorous use of irony in Chapter 17 is when Buck misspells Huck's other name for "George Jaxon", and then Huck "set down, private because somebody might want me to spell it next.", which means he learned to spell his own ... than most of the public, when he shows in Chapter 18 "Each person had their own nigger to wait on them - Buck too. My nigger had a monstrous easy time, because I warn't used to having anybody do anything for me, but Buck's was on the jump...

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... because Catholics believe everybody to be equal in God's eyes, while everyone is treating the blacks like they are not as important as the whites. While Buck Grangerford explains the Grangerford - Sheperdson feud to Huck, Buck states that "The men took their guns [to church] and kept them between their knees or stood them handy against the wall. (Twain 148)" The feud ... ...

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... , while giving us a taste of how Huck views the situation. "Next Sunday we all went to church, about three mile, everybody a-horseback. The men took their guns along, so did Buck, and kept them between their knees or stood them handy against the wall. The Shepherdsons done the same. It was pretty ornery preaching- all about brotherly love, and such like ... ...

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... that humans commit become that much more disturbing when it can be shown that such violence has no reason or justification. Twain shows this to us when Huck is asking Buck Grangerford about when the feud all started. "Oh, yes, pa knows, I reckon and some of the other old people; but they don't know what the row was about in the ... ...

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... edge until one little incident makes one family make the first move because they fear the other, they don't even know what started the feud. "What was the trouble about, Buck? -- land?" (120) "I reckon maybe -- I don't know." (120) "Well, who done the shooting? Was it a Grangerford or a Shepherdson?" (120) "Laws, how do I know? It was so long ago." (120) They even ... ...

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