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A 3 page paper which examines the satirizing of do-gooders in Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” No additional sources cited.
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types of people who were often seen as stereotypes to some extent. One sort of person that Twain often satirized were the do-gooders, those people who felt they had the
answer for everyones problem as it related to religion and to being a good person. Throughout the novel Twain pokes fun at the institution of doing good, or church, and
those who do good. The following paper examines five excerpts wherein the reader can see satire aimed at do-gooders. Do-Gooders in Huckleberry Finn In the first chapter of
Twains book the reader sees how Huck has been essentially adopted by two women who are good natured and want to reform him and turn him into a proper boy.
They are nice women but at the same time they represent a society filled with do-gooders who really are hypocrites or sheep following what they are told. The first example
comes when one of the women is telling Huck about the story of Moses. Huck is interested until he finds out the man is long dead and becoming bored wants
a smoke. He asked the widow if he could smoke but she would not allow it. She tells him it is a nasty habit, not a clean habit, and that
Huck should not do it anymore. Huck thinks, "That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they dont know nothing about it"
(Twain Chapter I). He then notes that she took snuff, but "that was all right, because she done it herself" (Twain Chapter I). This is a clear indication that such
"good" people, Christian people, have their own ideals and are quite often hypocritical, although Twain offers this knowledge in a very satirical way through Hucks interpretation, which is wise and
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