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A 3 page paper which compares Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and Kurt Vonnegut’s “Breakfast of Champions” as they use satire. No additional sources cited.
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a quote, provided by the student requesting this paper, it is said that, "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. Its the best
book weve had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing good since." In his work Twain used a great deal of satire, something
obviously not new to literature, for Jonathon Swift was a powerful satirist, but in using satire he truly brought his work to life. The following paper examines, comparing, Twains novel
with Kurt Vonneguts "Breakfast of Champions" as they utilize satire. Twain and Vonnegut: Satire A very good place to start, in examining the satire in the novels, is
at the beginning of each story. In the beginning the author/narrator sets the theme, the foundation, of the entire novel and so essentially lays down the satirical perspective of the
work and the narrator. In Twains work Twain indicates that, "Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it
will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot" (Twain). Clearly this is a very humorous perspective and one that is quite satirical as he
addresses the audience. Twain perhaps understood that critics were bountiful and that his work would be critiqued in many respects. In fact it was a book that was ultimately banned
when it first came out because of language. But, in this introduction he is clearly poking fun at those people who would assume the story is anything but that, a
story, and a story that is simply entertaining. In the beginning of Vonneguts story the narrator states, "Trout and Hoover were citizens of the United States of America, a
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