Huck Finn #7

The novel is full of examples of Irony (something happens which is the oppostite of what you would expect) and sarcasm (someone saying one thing but meaning the opposite.) Most of the examples of SARCASM come when Huck Finn (the character) says one thing, but we as the reader know that Mark Twain (the author) is joking around or meaning the opposite.
Please find at least one quote that demonstrates an example of this sarcasm, and explain Twain's intended meaning.
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"we got there in about half an hour and fairly dripping."

" I hadn’t had a bite to eat since yesterday, so Jim he got out some corn-dodgers and buttermilk, and pork and cabbage and greens—there ain’t nothing in the world so good when it’s cooked right—and whilst I eat my supper we talked and had a good time. . . .We said there warn’t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft."

Twain is showing how life with Jim and Huck isn't all wasy. They don't have time to do everything they need. Even eating sometimes can be a struggle.

The little girl who writes death poems is not meant to be taken seriously-- although Huck is impressed, Twain is making fun of her.

"The widow. She told me."
Huck says this meaning it sarcastically because the story goes on and it says that the widow didnt know.

"Sick Arab-but harmless when not out of his head." The Duke is saying this sarcastically because even if a person is sick but not out of his head they can be harmful. The author, Mark Twain, is trying to say that a person can be harmful no matter what, in some sort of way despite their condition.

"but when he straightened himself up like s liberty-pole, and the lightening begun to flicker out from under his eyebrows, you wanted to climb a tree first, and find out what the matter was afterwards."

Mark Twain wrote this as a show of sarcasm. When someone gets mad lightening doesn't really flicker from under their eyebrows, they just get an angery look upon there face. Which he related to a bad (angry) storm. Mark Twain wrote climb up a tree to say, get out of the way until the "storm" had past.

"I don't know where we are"
The time that Huck was pretending to sleep just because Jim slept the whole adventure. He was being sarcastic like he didnt know his way around the river. And he had no help so he just went to sleep and got them lost. Huck is a very sarcastic charater.

"I'll take the canoe and go and see, Jim. It mightn't be you know."
I think this quote is the opposite of what Huck said because at the time, Huck was with Jim in the canoe going down the river to see what was ahead of them in there future.

"I don't like that shooting from behind a bush. Why didn't you step into the road, my boy?"
i think this quote is the opposite from the words, because it just means dont be getting into other peoples business, stay in your own and dont get inother peoples way because you are Black.

No we didn't miss the turn.

this was sarcasm because Huck knew that the did miss the turn in the fog but he still wanted to keep going.

"The widow rung a bell for supper, and you had to come to time."
Twain is making fun of society through Huck. He is commenting on their way of life and how he thinks it is so ridiculous.

"The widow. She told me."
huck is saying this sarcastically, and the book goes on and says the widow didn't know

twain made fun of society by using huck and hucks actions. He uses this to make fun of jim and hucks superstions and their way of how they lived.

"I can't believe i humbled myself to a Nigger"
Deep down huck knows that Jim is a good guy and is equal to everyone not just huck.

Bees don't sting idiots. Said Jim. Thats not true, cause I have tried to get stung but they won't sting me. Said Huck.

Twain put this ironic conversation in the novel to get the attention of the reader. He shows huck as an idiot even though he isn't.

Sarcasm "so then i judged that all that stuff was part of tom sawyers lies." how mark twain was making fun of the romantics and how all of the storys about tom sawyer were fake.

"When we was ready to shove off we was a quarter of a mile below the island, and it was pretty broad day; so I made Jim lay down in the canoe and cover up with a quilt, because if he set up people could tell he was a nigger a good ways off." -Pg. 58

Huck just assumes that people can tell the difference between a black person from a white person from a significantly long distance. And this points out that, he still holds the belief that blacks are different from whites.

dfeltmann, Do you think Twain may be poking fun at "Thanatopsis?"