With this said, all of the boys agree with this meaning of the word. In this segment of the novel, Twain uses satire in the form of gullibility and pseudo-intellectualism. Therefore, demonstrating that even though something may be truly wrong, if society embraces it to be true, then it is believed to be true. .
Later on in the novel after meeting the Duke and the Dauphin, a pair of river con men who claim to be of royalty, they go ashore in an Arkansas town. Huck decides to go exploring and sees Boggs, the harmless town drunk, who is going through the streets and vowing to kill Colonel Sherburn. Sherburn gives Boggs till one o'clock to stop speaking out against him, one o'clock comes and Boggs doesn t stop. "Boggs throws up both of hands and says,
•O Lord, don't shoot!' Bang! Goes the first shot, and he staggers back clawing at the air ¾bang! Goes the second one- (155). Through an extremely violent act Twain is showing the prevalent satire of feuding. How two people cannot reach a mutual respect and resort to violence, which has always affected every society. Immediately after Boggs is shot a crowd gathers around him. " Oh, he's killed him, he's killed him!' The crowd closed up around them, and shouldered and jammed one another, with their necks stretched, trying to see- (155). In this a major satire is showed, people's curiosity, that nagging feeling that plagues every human that wants to know what is there. This can still be showed in today's society in the police chases that are broadcasted on television live, most of which end in a horrific accident. The crowd the takes Boggs to a little drug store which the whole town converges on. Huck the describes what he can see inside of the store, "They laid him on the floor, and put one large Bible under his head, and opened another one and spread it on his breast- (155). Religious hypocrisy is again revealed by the placement of two Bibles on and under a man who was a drunk, and who was threatening to kill another man.
