My sumptuous stream by Megan Greene https://padlet.com/megangreene2000/x2ko0t7o12oi Made with a dash of wit en-us 2018-02-20 16:02:46 UTC 2025-11-24 16:11:59 UTC hello@padlet.com "The judge and the widow went to law to get the court to take me away from him and let one of them be my guardian; but it was a new judge that had just come, and he didn't know the old man; so he said courts mustn't interfere and separate families if they could help it; said he druther not take a child away from its father." megangreene2000 https://padlet.com/megangreene2000/x2ko0t7o12oi/wish/233345935 Although everyone believes that a father and his son should be together, Pap is a huge drunk who is unable to support his son and in turn it is kind of satire to the legal system during that time. ]]> 2018-02-20 16:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/megangreene2000/x2ko0t7o12oi/wish/233345935 "Ransomed? What's that? I don't know. But that's what they do. I've seen it in books"-pg.7 megangreene2000 https://padlet.com/megangreene2000/x2ko0t7o12oi/wish/233349953 Mark twain is satirizing crime in this part of the book. The boys want to essentially start a gang but are unsure on how to initiate it so he sis mocking the amount of knowledge the boys have on crime.]]> 2018-02-20 16:16:49 UTC https://padlet.com/megangreene2000/x2ko0t7o12oi/wish/233349953 "Huck chop off the snake's head and throw it away, and then skin the body and roast a piece of it... Jim ate it and said it would help to cure him." pg.40 megangreene2000 https://padlet.com/megangreene2000/x2ko0t7o12oi/wish/233361537 This is only one example where Mark Twain satirizes superstitions. Jim is the character who believes in there superstitions. He uses these superstitions to satirize some aspects of the society. ]]> 2018-02-20 16:33:46 UTC https://padlet.com/megangreene2000/x2ko0t7o12oi/wish/233361537