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The Wreck of Walter Scott is a prominent example of Huck's good character. It is here that his regard for life is shown when he comes across two men that killed a guy on a wrecked ship. “Quick, Jim, it ain’t no time for fooling around and moaning; there’s a gang of murderers in yonder, and if we don’t hunt up their boat and set her drifting down the river so these fellows can’t get away from the wreck there’s one of ‘em going to be in a bad fix" (Chapter 12) These men were clearly bad news and Huck clearly wanted to make sure they stayed put only to find out they were stranded. Their raft had floated away from the wreck. Instead of sending the criminals' boat adrift, they took the criminals' boat and found a man on the shore.
“Up where? Where are they?”
“On the wreck.”
“What wreck?”
“Why, there ain’t but one.”
“What, you don’t mean the Walter Scott?”
“Yes.” (Chapter 13)
Huck made up a story and convinced the man to help the two on the ship. Even though they were both criminals and had just killed a man, Huck's regard for life and morality are shown not only through Twain's satire but through Huck's actions throughout the book.

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4. Throughout the novel so far, Twain has criticized many aspects of society and humanity including : morality, racism, education, slavery, family, religion, and more.
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Satire is the biggest device in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It is used to make fun of many stereotypes and movements that were happening around and after The Civil War.

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Ignorance → Pap’s lack of education and ignorance is what fuels his racism. He is jealous of an educated back man just because of the color of his skin when there is nothing holding Pap back from becoming successful while the black man can lose everything just for being black. Pap is ignorant and racist. Readers see this in chapter 6 when Pap says" Why, looky here. There was a free nigger there from Ohio—a mulatter, most as white as a white man. He had the whitest shirt on you ever see, too, and the shiniest hat; and there ain’t a man in that town that’s got as fine clothes as what he had; and he had a gold watch and chain, and a silver-headed cane—the awfulest old gray-headed nabob in the State. And what do you think? They said he was a p’fessor in a college, and could talk all kinds of languages, and knowed everything. And that ain’t the wust. They said he could vote when he was at home. Well, that let me out. Thinks I, what is the country a-coming to?”(chapter 6) Along with Pap's blatant racism, his ignorance is shown by his drunken desire to leave the country, "Sometimes I’ve a mighty notion to just leave the country for good and all." In classic pap fashion, his personal ideals don't align with the America. His is a racist extremist especially when drunk.

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Mark Twain is satirizing how women were perceived in the 1850s by comparing male and female stereotypes of how they would do certain things. When Huck goes to Judith Loftus' house, his mannerisms give away that he is a boy in disguise. "Well, I reckon you have lived in the country. I thought maybe you was trying to hocus me again. What’s your real name, now? “George Peters, mum.” Well, try to remember it, George. Don’t forget and tell me it’s
Elexander before you go, and then get out by saying it’s George Elexander when I catch you." (Chapter 11) This quote follows the interrogation Ms. Loftus gave Huck when she began to become suspicious of Huck "Say, when a cow’s laying down, which end of her gets up first?
Answer up prompt now—don’t stop to study over it. Which end gets
up first?”
“The hind end, mum.”
“Well, then, a horse?”
“The for’rard end, mum.”
“Which side of a tree does the moss grow on?”
“North side.”
“If fifteen cows is browsing on a hillside, how many of them eats
with their heads pointed the same direction?”
“The whole fifteen, mum.”
Ms. Loftus was realizing that Huck was in disguise although she did not know who he really is. He was pretending to be a girl to gather information about what people know of Huck and Jim but he slips character and she sees right through him. The questions she asks in the quotes above and through the chapter are all heavily stereotyped to specific genders which could be the reason Mark Twain wrote this chapter; to bring awareness.

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Twain mocks racism by showing two characters of different races being dependent on each other in this chapter. Using their knowledge to succeed. Both Huck and Jim shouting to know where each other was a prime example of their teamwork. “Goodness gracious, is dat you, Huck?” Jim becomes frightened that he would have to survive alone on a raft drifting south in the heart of racism in America. (Chapter 15) Jim needs Huck because he gives Jim assurance and safety. The state of the South is the most terrifying thing for Jim, an escaped slave. He knows if he is captured or spotted he will be forced into slavery again or even killed. Racism was ever-present in America and gave the black population crippling fear. "the people that’s always the most anxious for to hang a nigger that hain’t done just right is always the very ones that ain’t the most anxious to pay for him when they’ve got their satisfaction out of him" (Chapter 42) Jim's life was very much in danger towards the end of this story. In the south, it was common practice to kill black people and many got satisfaction out of it. Much like how we hunt and fish for sport, white people saw black people the same way.