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1. Discuss Twain’s use of satire in Huckleberry Finn. Choose two of Twain’s targets and explain the satire directed toward each. Mark Twain uses satire to show how the people’s rationale of slavery is not right. Huck Finn grows up in an environment surrounded by people that teach him that blacks are not as good as whites. They even go so far as to think that blacks aren’t even people like whites. …

…without really taking their beliefs to heart. Con artists still take advantage of other innocent people. Prejudice still exists in different forms. The mob still rules when people get together against something, and they just get swept away in the crowd and the moment. Things happen without really thinking because the mob is just an irrational mass of people who don’t really know what they want but just follow a leader who seems confident.