Mark Twain writes satire. A satire is humorous writing or speech intended to point out errors, falsehoods, foibles, or failings. It is usually a description of an event or a situation that is exaggerated or emphasized in ways to make it look ridiculous. Shows like "Saturday Night Live" often employ satire.
Who or what is Mark Twain satirizing so far in this book? How? What is he doing to make characters or situations look silly? Is Twain good at it?
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I believe that Mark Twain has satirized churchgoers and teachers from the 1850's. He portrays these people as show-offs and people who put up a false front, such as when he describes the poodle chasing the beetle, and everyone is trying not to laugh, because that would almost be a sin. In addition, he adds that church choirs are generally ill-willed, and that most of the sermon and prayer is boring (That was probably true in those times). I think Twain is doing a moderate job of satirizing compared to what we have today; for instance, Twain would be nothing against SNL. He does more of a deeper kind of satirizing where you have to look deeper into the story to really understand, unlike on Saturday Night Live, where you can get the joke as long as you are keeping up with popular culture. Perhaps Twain's satirizing was more popular in the 1870's because people saw these things everyday and it was more easy to relate to. If you research the time period, his satirizing seems more clever. However, it seems quite subtle and is not good for just fun reading of satire.
Some of the things Mark Twain is satirizing in the book so far are things like the time Tom tried to trick the boys into painting the fence, how some people show off in weird ways, and describing how the dog was bitten by the pinch-bug and was thrown out the window by its owner. He also points out the church choirs as being rude and disruptive during the service and tittering and whispering, or how church and school are boring and how Tom tries to escape the pain of going there. When he does this, he makes the characters look foolish, mischievous, clever, or even dumb. Twain is an expert at satire and it is funny how he points out people’s flaws.
So far I think that Mark Twain has made fun of many people. First he made fun of teachers by writing about when the Judge comes into the classroom they all start showing off in strange ways, like the male teachers beating children. He also makes fun about how boys show off when he wrote that Tom was showing off in all kinds of absurd boyish ways, like dangerous gymnastics. He made fun of church goers by saying how they were all bored and not listening, but watching the dog get bitten by the pinch bug. He also said that the choir was always tittering and whispering and that he had only heard of a good choir once in his lifetime. These are just some small examples showing that Mark Twain is good at writing satire.
In Mark Twain’s book, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," Mark Twain is satirizing adults in general. He is using children to illustrate some of the adult behavior that he deems amusing or ridiculous. The “white-washing the fence incident” in chapter two is a perfect example of Mark Twain using satire to make characters look silly. By making it seem as though white washing the fence was somehow a privilege, the kids were convinced that this was something they should do, and they were even willing to pay a big price for it by giving their various treasures to Tom! Tom cashed in on the fact that people want the unattainable.
Mark Twain is good at using satire. The example above is both laughable and can be applied even today. His satire involving making something seem hard to attain, to make people want to do anything they can to have it -regardless of cost- happens all around us every day. Advertisers are constantly trying to convince us that their product is ”exclusive,” “high end,” or “for those who only want the best!” And sure enough you see people who will do or pay anything for that purse, that phone, or that car. Human nature is still the same as it was in 1876, when this book was first published, which is one of the reasons this book is considered a classic piece of American Literature, and is still enjoyed by many people today.
I think that there is satire in the scene when Aunt Polly slaps Tom because she thinks Tom broke the sugar bowl. When Tom said that Sid broke the sugar bowl she pauses thinks and then she realizes that if she apologizes to Tom then she would be admitting she was wrong. When she tells Tom he had probably done something else anyway to cover up; I think that is funny because since Tom has a bad reputation, she could use that as a loophole to getting out of apologizing to Tom. That is what I think an example of satire.
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Mark Twain is at his best satirizing church and religion. Most of the times you will find mark twain mocking people around with gentle satire. For example, in the church he talks about a little German boy who recites Biblical verses suffering a nervous shock. Next he talks about the minister who he compared to a bulletin board. Also judges, Mr. Walter and Mr. Thatcher who shows up just to make a good impression. Tom, of course, has done that before when he trades goods he earn from whitewashing the fence for tickets which was the symbol of accomplishment, not the accomplishment themselves.
Mark Twain satirizes churchgoers and teachers in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. For example, when the stray poodle fights the beetle during church, the churchgoers laugh and ignore the sermon, which is disrespectful. Mark Twain satirizes schoolteachers a lot in pages twenty-eight and twenty-nine. Lawyer Thatcher enters the school, and since he I such an important person, Mark Twain writes about the teachers “showing off.” The superintendent, Mr. Walters, “fell to showing off with all sorts of bustlings and activities, giving orders, delivering judgments, discharging directions here, there, everywhere he could find a direction. The young lady teachers showed off, bending sweetly over pupils that were lately being boxed, lifting pretty warning fingers and bad little boys and patting good ones lovingly. The young gentlemen teachers showed off with small scoldings and other little displays of authority and fine attention to discipline…” I believe that Mark Twain satirizes schoolteachers more than churchgoers, and I am surprised that people complain about churchgoers being ridiculed versus schoolteachers.
Mark Twains outlook on the 1800s is rather humerous. He portrays people on how he thinks they should act rather then how they do act. In church when Tom Sawyer lazyly throws the beetle everyone looks at it. In church if some disruptense occurs no one looks at it and the parents/ custodian goes and takes care of it. Also most preachers do not talk like a robot. The teachers also attempt to help you better understand what the Bible says. In this case they are scolding and saying good job rather then helping. Also church chiors do not act disruptive but wait pationately while they listen to the minister preaching.
Mark Twain satirized a lot in his book “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.” Mainly he satirized adults. He made the adults look ridiculous. For example, the church incident. All the adults were acting like fools, showing off for just some newcomers to the church. He also makes some of the child characters look foolish too. For instance, when Tom got those boys to think it was an honor or a pleasure to be able to do his work. Tom even got the boys to pay him to do his work! I think Tom is great at satirizing. It’s funny how he points out people’s flaws.
I think that Mark Twain has made fun of churchgoers, teachers, and was very sexist against girls in the 1800's. He pokes fun at them because he wants to add some flavor to the book. But what he thought was flavor, actually turned out to be racist. Then his book gotten took off the book list. He also pokes fun at the choir by making funny jokes at them saying there were ill-bread. His jokes are funny, but some of them are hard to understand. Unlike Saturday Night Live were the jokes are hilarious, because they are more up to date. But cut the guy some slack, it was made n the 1800's.
Mark Twain has satirized many things in this book but so far Some of the things Mark Twain has satirized is the time Tom turned all those poor boys into victims and conned them into whitewashing the fence for him. He also told how lots of people showed off in different and weird ways. He described how the dog sat down and got bitten by the beetle and then its owner threw the dog out the window. He described how the church choir was being impolite, offensive, troublesome, disorderly, and upsetting during the church services and whispering. Mark Twain also tells how church and school are so boring and Tom doesn’t want to go to school so he tries to fake pain so he can stay home. When Tom tries to skip school so he can go to the water hole, he makes the characters in the book look unwise, ill-behaved, and dumb.
I think Mark Twain has satirized many people in the story so far. For example, he made fun of churchgoers for their short attention span. When the dog was messing with the beetle and ended up getting bit in the bottom, the churchgoers tried to refrain from laughting. I believe Mark Twain made fun of the choir for the disruptiveness. He said, "There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have forgotten where it was now." Basically saying there was never a choir that wouldn't talk at every given moment. Also, Mark Twain satirized the women because they fell in love with the preachers voice. I think Mark Twain is very good at satirizing and if he was still alive, he would be writing the scripts for SNL.
In the book" The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" I think Mark Twain satirizes many people including Tom. Also another time Mark Twain said the minister was giving a speech so wordy and long that people began to grow weary and soon just left. It makes them look silly because then there isn't a point in going to church in the morning. I think Mark Twain did a good job making the book sound more fun and interesting.
I couldn't find them but there are more parts in the book where he satirizes people or things but it's really hard to tell for me so I only wrote one. In conclusion I hope to see more of Mark Twain's funny explanations of people/ things in the book.
I think Mark Twain was satirizing at the teachers and some of the neighborhood kids. He is making the teachers look like complete idiots in front of the judge while he is talking. They show off by giving compliments to good students and criticize the kids that were being bad and doing the wrong thing. Mark Twain also makes fun of the neighborhood kids by making them look silly. They gave Tom things because they were given the opportunity to white- wash the fence. But really they were just doing work for Tom. Tom gives them a good persuasive explanation for them to paint the fence and give him something for it. It's their fault that they fell for the dirty trick though.
I think Mark Twain made fun of a numerous amount of people and was a really great satirist. First of all, he made fun of the churchgoers by making them not pay attention to the prayer, but the dog who got bitten in the butt. Also, he made fun of the choir that sang.He also made fun of the dog because he made the dog dumb enough to sit on the beetle and have pain in the butt. Lastly, he made fun of the kids that came to help Tom do the whitewashing business. Well, I took it like the kids were really dumb and actually did the job for Tom. Overall, I think Mark Twain is an amazing and humorous satirist.
I think that Mark Twain has satirized many people in the book so far. When he talked about Tom's point of view of church and how Tom was so bored he began to watch bugs, he was poking fun at church and at religion in a way. Twain satirized basically the whole southern 1850's image when he talked about Huckleberry Finn and how all the boys envied him. Twain also made boys look gullible in the scene where Tom convinces everyone that whitewashing is an honor. Also, when Mark Twain talks about the "town drunk" he makes it sound totally normal!I believe that Twain is very good at satirizing and I can't wait to read on!
Mark Twain has satirized the church attenders and maybe even dogs. He has satirized churchgoers by saying how they focus on little things like beetles instead of the things like really matter like the priest or minister. Also most churchgoers don't start laughing about animal abuse and they don't turn red faced . They focus on the priest and are polite and pay attention. He satirized animal abuse by writing a dog getting thrown out of a window. He is making seem like they don't even care enough to be quiet. He also wrote that they use church to show off for people who are in a higher class than them. In the real world people love to go to church but in the book people only worry about showing off. Mr. Twain is okay at writing satires because if you wanted to make fun of a subject you might as well take it to the extreme. I like Saturday Night Live better since it is more modern and I understand the jokes more.
In my mind Mark Twain is very good at writing satires. So far in the chapters we have read Mark pokes fun at adults in general, to be more specific, churchgoers. During the church incident he talks about the adults trying to resist laughing at the dog, he makes it sound like all of the churchgoers are bad-mannered and rude. Also he is saying that churchgoers would rather pay attention to a dog and a beetle than to the priest. In my mind SNL is funnier because it’s easier for me to understand the jokes because they are up to date. In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer the jokes are old-fashioned and I don’t really understand them unless someone explains them to me.
Mark Twain has written several satires in his famous novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer that sound humorous and almost ridiculous as they point out falsehoods in the story. Twain has satirized the church-goers at Sunday church service. At church service, everybody tries “showing off,” but put up a false impression. For example, the choir disrupts church service by whispering amongst themselves and being troublesome in other ways. Another example is when people at church chose to watch the pinch-bug bite the dog rather, than listening to sermons. They tried hard not to laugh because it would almost be considered wrongdoing during church. Another example is when the minister then threw his own dog out of the window because it was causing too much distraction for the crowd and was capturing more people’s attention. What Twain is trying to say, is that most people believed that most of church service was pointless and boring and they would rather pay attention to things that would distract them rather than choose to listen to sermons. People tried to show off during church service by trying to discipline children and demonstrate that church service was important. According to their behavior, they generally do not care for church and are hypocritical in paying attention to sermons. I personally believe that Twain does a reasonable job at writing satires. Unlike present-day’s .Saturday Night Live, twain’s satires require more attention and deep thought to fully understand it. When I first read the selection, I just thought that it was meant to be humorous and the people were insincere toward church service. After reading the selection again, I understood the event pointed out falsehood in human action. I believe it would have been easier to understand back in the 1800’s because going to church service applied to everybody’s everyday life. In the 1870’s Twain’s satire would have made more sense as oppose to now.
Mark Twain is considered one of Ameria's greatest satirists. In Tom Sawyer, he mocks multiple groups of people, including parents, kids, the church, and teachers. Aunt Polly is Tom's guardian. She is clueless about Tom's mischievous behavior and not effective in disciplining Tom. Tom usually finds a way around her punishments, and Aunt Polly never knows. In the whitewashing scene, Twain makes fun of kids. He says "that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain". By making the whitewashing seem fun and special, the boys are willing to pay to do hard work. Twain is showing that reverse psychology works. Twain satirizes the minister who is a "bullitin board". The minister talks on and on about the meetings, but he really should have been talking about The Bible. Overall, Twain is an extremely humorous satirist.
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Mark Twain is doing a very excellent job satirizing in this book for a few reasons. First, he makes fun of churchgoers by making them seem rude and unfocused. For example, when the poodle was running around the church very rapidly, all of the peoole at the church were trying to hide their laugh so it could seem like they were focusing on the priest even though they couldn't because the dog was too hilarious. Also, he made the teacher look foolish because when someone special came to the church, all of the ladies were acting silly trying to impress him and the male teachers were all scolding the boys to make himself look strict.
I think Mark Twain is doing a good job of showing satire. When the doctor got killed, he emphasized how, where, and when he got killed and what the men were like that killed him. Muff Potter was a miserable drunk that didn't know that he wasn't the one who killed the doctor. He threatened Dr. Robinson, though. Injun Joe killed Dr. Robinson, blamed it on Potter, and seemed like a horrible person. Mark Twain really seemed to bring out the bad and emarassing in them. Potter and Joe make life seem boring with nothing better to do than kill people and/or get drunk. But, Mark Twain did a good job at trying to make us think that because he really did.
I believe Mark Twain has satirized Mr. Dobbins, Tom’s schoolmaster. He does this by describing him as “ the master throned on high in his great splint-bottom arm chair”. When Tom sneaks into the classroom, he wakes the dozing schoolmaster. Twain then describes how he beat Tom with a stock of switches until his arm was too tired to hit him anymore. This turns out to be humorous because he ends up making the teacher look ridiculous, when all of the children in the class show “worshipful awe of their unknown idol, Tom”.
I feel that Mark Twain does an incredible job at satirizing the schoolmaster by turning what should have been respect for the teacher into respect for Tom. Twain makes it seem so real. I could picture in my head the teacher looking like a complete fool. He is very descriptive, and makes the story seem real.
In the book, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) satirizes the church goers. I feel adults are too mature to be showing off to the new comers. The church goers were singing their very best, praying their very best, and sitting up as tall as can be. I think Mark Twain is just making it seem that even though most people there are very poor they try to impress the new people, so they don't know they are poor. I think Mark Twain is very bad at it because i don't think it is funny. He could of gone more over-the-top with it. In conclusion Mark Twain writes satires in his book,"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", but in my opinion he is not good.
In my sole opinion, I believe that the famous Mark Twain has the capabiity of using satires to enrich the qualities of his fine works. From "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," I can tell that Mark Twain enjoys using children in the 1800's as victims of his satires. A fine example would be the famous "white-washing" scene from chapter two. Tom evidently messes with the little children and tricks them into thinking that it was a fine privelege to white-wash his fence and they ended up even paying him to paint his fence! How pathetic! Another instance would be the event where the Sunday churchgoers gathered in the church and were as boring as heck. I, very literally, almost skipped that chapter, and I LOVE the book. I've never skipped anything in all my 13 years of reading... EVER, and I've read A LOT! Anyway, so the people were like trees (not even that, 'cause even trees are more exciting), and then this poodle waddles by. Ha! But what is even more interesing is that the poodle meets a pinchbug and gets pinched! I mean really! So then the churchgoers got very distracted and started laughing and completely ignoring the sermon, because there is typically no real excitement in the church, and this very kind, very pleasant fellow walks up to the poodle, very gently picks it up, and CHUCKS IT OUT THE WINDOW! Not even kidding! Yes, I know, poor dog, right? Well, back then, they didn't even care. These two fine examples show that Mark Twain really knew his satire stuff! I really think that it is such a pity there aren't much more of these excellent satire pieces. How fun it would be to read more hilarious books that emphasized on people's falsehoods and weaknesses. Once again, I think Mark Twain was an extraordinarily excellent satire artist that really knew how to have fun without infuriating anyone(most people, at least).
I think Mark Twain is satirizing everyone in the book from Tom to Aunt Polly to Sid to Mary to everyone in between. He is doing by showing people in a weird way. Also, when he introduces a new character into the book, he will say what they wear, how they talk and everything about them. I think what he is doing to make characters and situations look silly is by for example say someone was standing by the lke and was facing it, he might say " Sara was pushed from her feet arching her back all the way forward like a frog jumping from one lily to the other." I think Mark Twain is good at it in some ways and in some parts of the book. I would not say that he is great or fantastic just good. I think this because in some parts of the book he is overexaggerating what is going, but that is how it is to me.
In the book "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," Mark Twain uses many examples of satire, throughout the book. So far Mark Twain satirized a lot of people "showing off" but in their own way. For example, Mr. Walters "showed off" by giving orders, delivering judgements, and gave directions to any target he comes across. While a young lady teachers "showed off" by lifting pretty warning fingers at bad boys and patting good ones lovingly. Mark Twain also satirized how the minister was giving a speech that went on and on, so wordy that people began to grow tired of listening to him giving superfluous arguments,that they soon left the church. So many people left, that it seemed like there was no point at all to go about his arguments and wordy speeches. Mark Twain made it enjoying to read because he uses satire to not necessarily to make fun of people, and make them feel bad, but to make someones failings funny in a humorous way. I have noticed that satire, is a great writing technique, and Mark Twain has done a really good job making characters and situations silly. He puts them in places which nobody really wants to be put in, like on the spot or saying a long speech that nobody cares about. Overall, there was a lot of great uses of satire throughout the book, and I am looking forward to reading more of Mark Twain's writing.
I think that Mark Twain is writing about the churchgoers. I really think that church is not something that people can't show off about in front of new people. If they were showing off in front of me, I wouldn't care. I would just ignore them and enjoy my time there. Also, people at church can't show off in many ways that would make people mad or embarrassed. So what that a person can recite twenty more verses than me. I will probably be able to memorize those verses after a week. This is considered Satire because showing off in church is basically the opposite of what you do in church. In church you savor the people around you. I think that Mark Twain is an AMAZING writer when it comes to satire. He is wonderful at making fun of people's everyday life.
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I think that Mark Twain's idea of the 1850's were supposed to be funny for the audience reading the books: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventure of Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain is making fun of churchgoers, and wrote the story of his memories and of his childhood. His writing captures the style of life during the 1850's. Mark Twain writes about a boy our age, and creates him and his friends to be racist and sexist, which wasn't very uncommon back in the day. In fact, in his writing, Mark Twain tries to make slavery, because this story takes place in the South, Confederate Country, look stupid. He was very against the whole idea of slavery, which made him an abolitionist. I think Twain did a very good job of using satire in the story, and nowadays, we, as humans, don't think it is as good because the times have changed since then; we don't think it is as funny. But I think that people loved his stories back when his writing just came out. People enjoy to watch reality shows, like Saturday Night Live, or The Jay Leno Show, because it keeps up with the current era of satire.
I think the main thing Mark Twain made fun of so far was when tom went to church. In this scence a new lawyer has moved in to town and come to the church and everybodys trying to impress him and that makes everybody look silly.For example the littler kid teachers were trying to look all sweet when they were discplining the kids and the other Sunday school teachers were trying to look smart.Even the libarain was running around trying to look like she was doing alot of stuff.Mark Twain made them seem like they weren't even focused on church. I think Mark Twain is pretty good at making the characters look silly, but it took me a while to understand what his point was.
Mark Twain has satirized about many things in the book "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer." The superstitions that Tom and Huck believed in really caught my attention because of how Mark Twain makes fun of their childish beliefs. . They would debate about how to take off warts. One idea was that if you burry a dead cat in a graveyard, the next day all your warts would have found the cat and have vanished from your fingers. Another satire that i recognized was, when they ran into a dog howling at the moon in the middle of the night. They believed that when a dog is howling at the moon you will die. They soon corrected themselves and said that the dog has to be staring at you while howling, for the superstition to work. It is amazing how far the world has come today, because those superstitions would not be believe by someone their age today.
In Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain satirizes churchgoers by making them look like the really don't care about the religion and that it is an unwanted priority to go every Sunday. He also makes them look disrespectful because of the scene where the owner of the poor poodle threw it right out of the window and when the churchgoers were almost ready to burst with laughter during the beetle and poodle scene. Of course back then it was normal to throw your poodle out the window if it misbehaved. Another way Mark Twain satirizes is when he makes the women at the church act silly by having them flutter their hands about their faces and act as if the man's voice was too beautiful for human ears. Another example is when the judge enters and everybody begins to show off,say, by making the male teachers beat the boys and acting as if they're the most perfect teachers in the world. He remarked on how the church choir was very rude and disrupting by whispering during the church service. In the whitewashing scene Mark Twain had the other boys act stupid or gullible as they complied to Tom's ridiculous request of them whitewashing the fence for him. Overall, Mark Twain clearly has experience in writing satires and uses the experience excellently in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
In the Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain uses a lot of satire. He has satirized Tom’s school teacher, the churchgoers, and some of Tom’s peers. He makes the teacher look silly when he said Tom had to wake him because the teacher should be focused on the class. He pointed out that church isn’t always “fun” for everyone when he said that churchgoers looked bored and were more interested in a bug and dog, than the actual church service. Mark Twain also showed how gullible and easily manipulated kids can be when he describes how Tom got his friends to whitewash the fence. Overall I think he is good at pointing out people’s flaws in a humorous way but the church example may have offended some people.
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Mark Twain shows satire many times in the book "Tom Sawyer". One of the times that mark twain showed satire was when tom was describing Huckleberry Finn. Huckleberry Finn is a boy that lives in Tom's neighborhood and he is the town drunks son. All the mothers in the town dislike him because he was idle, he was lawless, he was vulgar, and he was bad. He is allowed to do what ever he wants where ever he wants and when ever he wants. He is also allowed to swear as he pleased. What Tom describes describes Huckleberry as is 100 that "he was always dressed in the off-cast clothes of full-grown men, and they were in perennial bloom and fluttering with rags." that scene is satire because Tom is saying that Huckleberry is a very high class person with great manners. But Huckleberry is a low class slob. That is why it would be satire.
I think that Mark Twain is satirizing the way people talked, acted, and treated each other back in the 1800’s. He is doing this by writing in context. He is using slangs and popular vocabulary at the time that seems silly to us. He is also making them do things that we think are silly, like having two adolescent get “engaged” to each other. i think that Mark Twain is extremely good at satirizing these characters because he is doing it in a way that makes it funny yet ironic and also true to that time period. One example of this is when Tom makes the other boys whitewash the fence he i supposed to wash and also pay him for the privilege of getting to do so. this is funny and yet ironic at the same time.
I think that Mark Twain is making fun of people who go to church. He is also making fun of how people acted by making them say silly things. He makes some of the superstitions sound ridiculous but a lot of the people in the town believe them. An example of Mark Twain trying to make the characters look silly is when Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Fin are in the graveyard and think that Injun Joe, Dr. Robinson, and Muff Potter are devils when they come walking out of the fog. I think that Mark Twain is good at creating satire.
Mark Twain created the Satires in his books for his readers to find entertainment. So far I have seen Tom make fun of churchgoers and the church judges. He is telling the children how their parents were when they were young. One satire I saw was when the church teachers dog kept on playing with a beetle and then the teacher threw the dog out of the window. I think Mark Twain was a good satire writer for those times during the 1850’s.
Mark Twain has written many comical sections in his layered book of tom sawyer and I think that he has used satirization as a common comical tool. In the last 10 chapters that we have read as a class, I think there have been a couple of examples showing satirization. One of the most prominent and famous of the examples is in chapter two, when Tom Sawyer manipulates young boys into doing his work. In this section of the book Mark twain mixes extremely vivid details with trace amounts of satirization to make the finished product comical and even confusing when you ask yourself; Is this really possible? It seems so because it would have to be based on a real event to be so vivid, but yet can a real event be so perfectly set up?
Another good example is how boring he made the church sermon sound. While twain writes in tom's point of view, he creates it such that tom's own personality makes parts of the book became more pronounced with exploited satires. During the chapter he makes everyone completely uninterested in the sermon and even enough to notice a pincher bug and dog brawling. He also makes the preacher over persistent and so he waits to the very end until he stops and makes the dog leave. Becoming enlightened on this particular subject has shown me that while it takes a trained eye to find twain's satires, what did it take to make them buried in the text.
Mark Twain created the Satires in his books for his readers to find entertainment. So far I have seen Tom make fun of churchgoers and the church judges. He is telling the children how their parents were when they were young. One satire I saw was when the church teachers dog kept on playing with a beetle and then the teacher threw the dog out of the window. I think Mark Twain was a good satire writer for those times during the 1850’s.
In Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain uses satire in an intense way. In the book so far his satires portray mostly adults and church goers but occasionally children. For instance, when Tom was in church a poodle is bit on the butt by a pinch bug and was thrown out the window by its owner, most of the church goers laughed but many concealed it because they thought it was improper manners for church. He also mentions that the church choir was very impolite by laughing, and whispering to each other. He exclaims that they are ill bred and act abnormally for being in church. Finally, he was very sarcastic when he said that Huckleberry Fin's clothes were in bloom which means that they smelled like blooming flowers even though he sleeps in a barrel and never takes a shower. Over all Mark Twain is very good at using satire in the book to convey his opinion of life.
In the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer I believe that Mark Twain has been satirising humans in general but also he specifically makes fun of churchgoers. I thought of this when reading chapter four and five. First of all Mark Twain described churchgoers as people who show off. They always try to look their best in front of important people. He also made the characters seem board of church and pay attention to the dog fighting the picherbug. Mark also made them try to hide the fact that they were laughing by covering the bottom part of their face. He made fun of humans in general by making Tom always get in trouble. Mark Twain also made Tom like to show off. He was described as "showing off in absurd boyish ways". He also made the characters somewhat dumb and gullible. This is shown in the whitewashed fence seen when Tom Sawyer convinces kids to pay him to do his work. By making the characters have these traits he makes the book funny and more interesting to read. Though Mark Twain my make fun of many people and their human traits he is still a good writer and is a genius at writing in this style.
There are many people Mark Twain is satirizing. For example boys, women, and churchgoers. He satires boys by showing how gullible they can be like in the book when Tom tricks all of the boys into whitewashing the fence in return, Tom got all sorts of treasures. Also, Mark Twain satires women when they are listening to the pastor preach and are in awe and waving their hands in the air in admiration. Lastly, he satires churchgoers especially when Tom is bored out of his mind and finds the beetle in which this shows that Twain is suggesting that church speeches are long and boring. Twain is very good a satirizing people because this is his take on what life was like back then makes everyone look even worst. It’s kind of like taking a bad situation and making it worse in a humorous way. Overall I applaud Mark Twain for taking a stand and showing just how funny some people act!
I think that Twain makes fun of churchgoers, women and people who just are all around up tight and awkward. I also think that when we compare his writings to some things that the roman writer Horace wrote they are quite similar. He also makes fun of adolescent boys and girls. How so? Well he makes us boys look funny how when we see a hot chick we start to show off our GUNS (muscles). He makes fun of girls by writing that when they see a good-looking guy they start making eye contact and GIGGLE (tee hee hee). Also Twain is probably the best satirizer that I have ever read of.
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Twain is right about the girl thing, not so sure about the boy thing but I do have big GUNS!!!!!!!, TEE HEE!!
So far in this book, Samuel Clemens or his pen name Mark Twain has done an excellent job in the satire so far in the book. He has not only satire churchgoers but also teachers. Like when the churchgoers start to pay attention to the fight of the pinch bug versus the dog. This made them seem like they didn’t care about what they were doing. Made them look pretty silly huh? Then also when Judge Thatcher entered the class room everyone started showing off to impress him. I think in all of the probally 500+ books…long books that I have read, I think this one is the most funny. I think Mark Twain did an excellent job in writing this book.
I believe Mark Twain has mocked not only one, but many people in Tom Sawyer, and pretty good at doing it, for that matter. First of all, women as a whole are being satirized. They are portrayed as weak, naïve “creatures” who as just about as helpless as a premature newborn baby. For instance, when Tom first sees Becky Thatcher, she’s referred to as a “creature,” and in Church, the women deeply admire the amateur Priest’s “sublime” (actually terrifying) reading of poetry. Another offensive element of Twain’s is how African Americans were treated. They are treated poorly – like the way Tom treats their slave, Jim; and Huckleberry uses the “n” word quite a few times. Now, of course, back in the 1850’s, slavery was still taking place, so using this word wasn’t directly meant to be offensive. Lastly, church-goers are indeed being ridiculed, too. Church is displayed as silly, and more of a place to go show off. This is happening, for example, when Judge Thatcher comes to church for the first time, and everybody is trying to impress him – the priest is giving official orders and such; the librarian was running around with stacks of books in his arms; the male teachers were slapping and punishing their students; female teachers were sweetly patting her angelic kids’ heads; and of the little boys and girls were trying to look as mature as possible. In conclusion, several groups of people have been successfully satirized by Twain in his novel.
So far in the book Tom Sawyer Mark Twain has made a few satires. The main satire that he’s made has been about churchgoers. Twain has made them seem like they can’t focus, For example when the dog was chasing the pinch bug the churchgoers couldn’t focus on the sermon and were laughing behind their handkerchiefs’. I Think Twain is good at creating satires because he can make something boring like church and turn it into a great and funny read. Also the way he writes makes the satire easy to understand the scene but makes the reader think about what’s going on.
In "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain there are many examples of satire. I think the part about the white-washing of the fence in chapter two is a good example. Tom convinced the kids that it would be so much fun to do this work that he actually even got them to pay him for the privilege! Some people will do almost anything if they can be convinced it is a one of a kind opportunity and don't even realize they are being taken advantage of. In chapter five Tom brought a large black beetle to church which would be seen as sinful to the churchgoers but when Tom let it go, and the beetle bit a poodle in the church, the churchgoer's were red faced trying not to laugh. This is ironic because the churchgoers were as bored as Tom and obviously not that interested in the sermon. Laughing in church would be as sinful as Tom's bringing in the beetle. You can see real live satire at work in church today. Some people act all holy and then can be seen eating, yawning, reading, snoozing and even texting while the priest is talking! I am sure there will be more satire in the rest of this novel and I'll be looking for it.
I feel a good example of satire written by Mark Twain in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, would be of the fun between Tom and Huck Finn. Huckleberry Finn is described with a satirical way of being a hillbilly, and a boy with no limits of good or bad. In chapter 6, Mark Twain writes about how Tom would try to play with Huck every chance he could. Because all the parents didn’t care for Huck or want their kids to play with him, it made Tom want to play with him more. When Tom stopped to talk to Huck in town and they talked about the dead cat Huck was holding, this was a good example of satirical scene in the book. Huck told Tom how a dead cat can help heal warts and the boy’s conversation about spunk-water being a better cure for warts is a great part of the chapter’s satire. Huck Finn is just one of many characters that Mark Twain writes about in a satirical style.
I think that Mark Twain has satirized churchgoers and how people werent how they look like on the outside in the 1850's. I think thats its offensive to churchgoers because when the judge was there they were all trying to show off. Twain described that the whole room was filled with it. I think that adults should be more mature about it! Only kids do that....I love the way Twain uses satire because he makes it funny. He also shows how Huck who is the tough kid that everyone wants to be and admires has a soft side and is scared when he thinks theyre going to die in the tanner. That also shows how people are not always how they seem.
Mark Twain uses satire in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. One of these incidents was when Tom’s teacher was trying to impress Judge Thatcher by being strict. Mark Twain was saying that Tom’s teacher was trying to impress the Judge by being dishonest and was acting the way he thought the Judge wanted him to act. Mark Twain is also poking fun at churchgoers. When a pincher bug pinched the poodle that was inside the church, he yelped. Most of the people in church were laughing but trying to cover it, because it was disrespectful. I think Mark Twain’s message was that just because you laugh in church does not mean that you do not care about God and the church. Mark Twain is famous for his use of satire in his works. Satire is an effective method of communicating a message in a more memorable way.
In this book Mark Twain satirizing many things. One example would be the ridiclously over exaggerated superstitions, going on throughout the book. I think that maybe he would be referring to country people, who are known for having many superstitions, or just boys looking for trouble. Then he took some of their superstitions and made it soud as thought no one in their right mind would do that. An example in the book would be when Tom and Huck were discussing different ways to cure warts. Huck mentions, that he believes that if you go to a graveyeard around midnight, a devil spirit will come and pick up a body, so in order to cure your wart, you would have to run after the devil and chant for him to take your wart away. I think that at least, in this time no one would ever do something as dangerous and stupid as that, just to cure a wart. Another quick example from the book would be when Tom is in Church, and it describes him being very bored. It says that he was so bored that he even noticed a small beetle on the ground, and started observing it, and that to him was just the best thing ever compared to the actual Church. Mark is probably reffering this to people that often don't find Church as entertaining as others. Although he still exaggerates it by thinking about how a beetle feels, it a little out of this world. I feel that Mark is doing a very good job on his satirization in the book, of what I have read so far. I feel that when he uses satires, I get very entertained, because they are something that is not realistic, so catch yourself imagining that. So to me, they just stick out the most in the book. With that being said, I think it is a good idea that Mark is using many satires throughout the book.
Mark Twain is an author who has inspired many people in having different prospective in how he describes the theme of the story. He satirized churchgoers and teachers from the 1850's.Some things are how he said the church bells have been rude and disrupted,the dog was bitten by the pinch bug and was thrown out of the window by it's own owner,and how he tricked these boys into painting the fence for him. He had the characters to crazy things that people would never do today. He taught people humor. He entertains children and adults in away they never thought of doing today. When he puts in new characters in the book he has them like or dislike Tom. Mark Twain puts the disastrous parts of Tom into a cliffhanger being confused and not knowing what happens next. His humor in when Tom tried to win Becky over he would do anything offer her a peach,share chewing gum,and even get in trouble to sit in the back of the classroom where all the girls and Becky sat to get next to. These are the some ideas Mark Twain will do to get the readers attention. I feel that Twain is creative at satire and is very clever on how he makes his points to get peoples attention.
So far in this book Mark Twain is focused on satirizing religion in the 1850’s. He does this by making a joke about Christianity. For example, the church goers were trying not to laugh when the dog was chasing the beetle. This would not be true because the church goers would be more focused on there religion. They also make fun of the minister by making him sound stupid. Twain says that the minister’s voice “began on a medium key and climbed steadily up till it reached a certain point, where it bore with strong emphasis upon the topmost word and then it plunged down.” He says this to make fun of the minister. Twain is very good at satirizing. Twain is good at this because he uses specific examples and proves his point with them. This is how he uses Satire in Tom Sawyer.
I think Mark Twain satirizes the dialect of the people in this book because the dialect he uses for the time period is accurate, but he stresses it a lot, so this makes us realize how people talked in the 1800s. For example, Injun Joe is equivalent to Indian Joe, but people slurred it so much that Mark Twain decided to write it as it sounds. Another way he satirizes is with the scenes with Becky and Tom. It makes us realize how stupid we are in situations like this. Becky and Tom get mad at each other after Tom slips that he used to be with Amy. Tom and Becky both expect the other one to apologize to them, but neither do. They just walk around feeling sorry for themselves which is what people still do today. People think to themselves how the whole world is out to get them, and how innocent they are, which is really quite silly. I think Mark Twain is very profound at this type of work because he is able to pick out little things in life that we don't notice, and make us realize how stupid we are for doing them. When we are reading his works, we can laugh at ourselves over what we do, and I think that this is what Mark Twain wanted us to experience.
I think Mark Twain is using satire to churchgoers and kids. For example, Mark made fun of churchgoers because when the beetle bit the poodle then ran away many people at church laughed, even though it’s very rude because they weren’t paying any attention. Another satire that Mark wrote about is the whitewashing scene. When Tom didn’t want to whitewash the fence, he found out an evil scheme to get out of it. So a kid was walking down the street and Tom said he was made for this job because he whitewashes perfectly. Then the kid said let me try, but Tom said nope but the kid didn’t give up so he said I’ll whitewash the whole thing and give you my apple and he said yes. Mark Twain was being offensive to kids because he’s saying kids are dumb because of this scene he wrote. Overall, I believe Mark Twain’s satires are funny but are also very offensive.
I think Mark Twain satirized the churchgoers and the adults in the 1850s. He makes the churchgoers seem like they would do anything to make a good impression on important people instead of focusing on religion like they’re supposed to do in church. For example, he says that when Judge Thatcher walks into church, everyone pretends like they’re always very busy doing their duties precisely which Mark Twain calls “showing off.” It is very comical to read. Twain makes adults look silly by making them seem like they want everything to be perfect and all the children they know to be obedient angels. It also implies that most of the adults believe that children should be seen but not heard unless they were reciting Bible verses. I think Twain is VERY good at satirizing people because he has a funny way of exaggerating things to make people look silly or even stupid. Mark Twain is extremely good at satirizing the adults and churchgoers of the 1850s.
Mark Twain has satirized many people and belifs in the book " The Adventures of Tom Sawyer." I think that Mark Twain has especially made satires about churchgoers and how they act when listening to the minister preach. Mark Twain also mocks the women in church, by making fun of the womens expressions and how they act after hearing the minister speak. In addition, he has satirized kids and his Aunt Polly. He has made fun of kids in this book by proving that he is smarter than them, and can find a way to con them into giving him things. Mark Twain makes the children sound stupid when around Tom. Lastly, when i read about Aunt Polly, she sounds like a fool for all the things she lets Tom get away with. Twain also makes Aunt Polly sound like a pushover and lets Tom do what ever when ever. In conclusion, I think that Mark Twain is very good at pointing out peoples flaws and is over all... good at writing satires !
Mark Twain has satirized many people and belifs in the book " The Adventures of Tom Sawyer." I think that Mark Twain has especially made satires about churchgoers and how they act when listening to the minister preach. Mark Twain also mocks the women in church, by making fun of the womens expressions and how they act after hearing the minister speak. In addition, he has satirized kids and his Aunt Polly. He has made fun of kids in this book by proving that he is smarter than them, and can find a way to con them into giving him things. Mark Twain makes the children sound stupid when around Tom. Lastly, when i read about Aunt Polly, she sounds like a fool for all the things she lets Tom get away with. Twain also makes Aunt Polly sound like a pushover and lets Tom do what ever when ever. In conclusion, I think that Mark Twain is very good at pointing out peoples flaws and is over all... good at writing satires !
Mark Twain wrote satires about many different types of people in the book Tom Sawyer. One group off people he makes fun of is churchgoers and how they laugh at things during church and do not always pay attention to the minister or however is speaking. For example in one scene Twain shows how instead of listening to the minister the churchgoers paid more attention to a dog that was playing with a beetle. Mark Twain also did not write his books with correct grammar, instead he wrote the way people talked to one an other. In my opinion I feel that Mark Twain is very skillful at writing satires.
Mark Twain has satirized many people and beliefs in the book " The Adventures of Tom Sawyer." I think that Mark Twain has especially made satires about churchgoers and how they act when listening to the minister preach. Mark Twain also mocks the women in church, by making fun of the women's expressions and how they act after hearing the minister speak. In addition, he has satirized kids and his Aunt Polly. He has made fun of kids in this book by proving that he is smarter than them, and can find a way to con them into giving him things. Mark Twain makes the children sound stupid when around Tom. Lastly, when i read about Aunt Polly, she sounds like a fool for all the things she lets Tom get away with. Twain also makes Aunt Polly sound like a pushover and lets Tom do what ever when ever. In conclusion, I think that Mark Twain is very good at pointing out peoples flaws and is over all... good at writing satires !
In "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" Mark Twain is satirizing church. Church in that time was very strict and if someone was to laugh or be distracted, the punishment wouldn't be light. It is exaggerated and looks funny instead or being strict and boring. I doubt that a pinch bug would actually jump up and randomly pinch a dog's nose for sniffing it. A minister would probably not bring it's dog to church. It seems silly because the dog is running around yelping with this bug on it's nose and everybody is just laughing! I think Mark twain is good at satirizing. Mark Twain used satires throughout the book and church is one of the many.
Mark Twain satires many things in the book "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer". One of them is that he shows how Jim agrees to whitewash the fence for Tom if he gave him a white alley and to see Tom's sore toe. This is very funny on how it is showing human curiosity when Jim only agrees after Tom says he will show him his toe. Another one is that he is showing how people like to show off to one another when the town's lawyer and his brother who was a judge came and they all started showing off. The teachers showed off by stopping the bad children from fighting, the librarian would show of by handing out books, the girls showed off in various ways, the boys showed off with bad behavior, and the lawyer and judge showed off too. Another satire is that he shows how foolish the boys were when they believed Tom that whitewashing the fence was a privilege. It was very funny when one boy got tired that Tom tricked another to do the work, and gave Tom items to play with, or trade for items later. I think Mark Twain did an excellent job showing humor at some of out human weaknesses.
I believe that so far Mark Twain has satirized churchgoers and women living in the mid eighteen hundreds. Twain portrays churchgoers as show-offs and people who hide their true selves. For example, when the poodle chased the beetle everyone thought it was funny but did not laugh because that would almost be a sin, Twain, also, tells how bored the people really were during the prayer and sermon but act as if the are listening. Women are portrayed as ditsy and arrogant. Twain shows this characteristic in the way the woman reacted to the minister when he read the poem aloud to the church. In my opinion, Twain was very good at writing satire. You have to really think deeper to understand that what seems like serious writing is actually poking fun at something. It is different than Saturday Night Live, because in Saturday Night Live if you are up to date on current events, it is easy to see that what they are doing is satire. I enjoy reading Mark Twain satirizing, he is funny the way he pokes fun at people.
Throughout the book “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, Mark Twain has shown many signs of satire. First, he has made the churchgoers look immature by the way they were so fascinated by the dog that was running a muck during the service while they were supposed to be listening and paying attention. Also, he has made the women of the church look completely ridiculous when they were ooooing and awwwing over the man that was reading the prayer. Another incident showing satire was when the teachers tried to show off for the judge by doing all sorts of crazy things. Lastly, Twain makes the boys who painted the fence look foolish. Not only did they do Toms work, they even paid him to do it. Mark Twain was an excellent writer and he successfully communicated satire in his writing.
I think Mark Twain is making fun of churchgoers and is also being sexist against the girls.He also makes fun of boys being not so smatrt. He was being sexist when he made the tacher punish Tom and his punishment was to sit with the girls.He was making fun of churchgoers whn Tom was watching the dog trying to catch the beetle.He was making fun of the boys when Tom was smart and tricked the boys into doing his work. He also made fun of the boys when Tom traded the things he got from the boys back to the boys in order to impress Becky by getting a bible.
My twenty-seventh word is supposed to be "smart".
I believe Mark Twain is satirizing churchgoers and young boys.He is making these charecters look silly because when he talks about churchgoers he portrays them as arrogant and sometimes animal abusing like the part in church when the man threw the dog out the window because the dog was being a disturbance. He is making young boys look silly because of the part when Tom tricked them into painting his Aunt's fence for him and paying him for doing it. Yes, I believe Twain is very good at Satiring churchgoers, young boys and probably anyone or anything for that matter.
So far in this book Mark Twain is satirizing in many ways. Some ways he is satirizing was when he wrote about Tom tricking other boys into doing his work such as white-washing the fence. Mark Twain was satirizing in this event by making Tom look bossy and having the other boys look weird and brainwashed. Twain is making the boys look silly by having them do all the work while Tom just sits around telling them what to do. Twain is doing a excellent job satirizing and also doing a wonderful job writing his book and the type of unique words he uses in his sentences and paragraphs. Obviously, Mark Twain had passed away in 1910 still today his books and quotes are very popular and read by many people and children.
In the book, I feel Mark Twain has pointed out ridiculous errors at women as well as church goers during the mid 19th century. At first, he makes the woman somewhat stupid by them loving and adoring literally every word the church minister says. Then, the women try to discreet the fact of them laughing at the poodle being pinched by the bug. This shows that women are trying to be more formal and more mature than they really are. From what I have read, I feel that Mr. Twain has a gift for satire. It must be hard to not to naturally write about the boast of a community, but yet, with such talent and flow of transition he is able to write about the absurd thing of his time period.
I think Mark Twain has shown many examples of satires. He has made fun of kids and how gullible they can be, and he has made fun of animals as well. An example of these satires is when Tom has to whitewash the fence, but instead of doing his job he wants to play and have fun. So he convinces the boys that whitewashing a fence is fun and is a privilege for them. The boys believe him so much that they give him things such as an apple and a dead rat on a string so they can paint the fence. This is making the boys sound gullible because kids today would know that painting a fence is a job and not a privilege. Also, Mark Twain is satirizing animals because when the children are at church they get distracted by a dog that sat on a beetle and gets a pain in his butt which made the children start to laugh. They were probably thinking how stupid the dog was to sit on a beetle when dogs are actually smart in real life. I think Mark Twain is excellent at writing satires because he finds the simplest things in life and he makes fun of them.
In the book, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" Mark Twain has satirized adults,or people in general. The churchgoers easily threw away their facade of devoutness to watch a dog chase a beetle. Similarly, he satirized how everyone tried to show off for the "important" county judge. He also satirized how humans strive for whatever is hard to get. Specifically, the scene where Tom gets his fence whitewashed, and is handsomely paid, by making his friends think it is hard to get. If, however, he had not made it seem unattainable they would have scoffed at his offer. He also describes how by memorizing bible verses, you win the prize of yet another bible, and for one child "...the strain upon his mental faculties was too great, and he was little better than an idiot from that day forward." I think Mark Twain has done a good job satirizing in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer." I enjoy the way he obscures it behind a translucent veil of eloquent speech, while still allowing it to be obvious enough to see at second glance, at least.
Mark Twain uses satire when writing about the churchgoers and teachers. When Twain talks about the sermon he is using the voice of Tom to make going to church sound boring, showing people being distracted by silly things, not consumed by the importance of church. He also shows that the teachers are show offs and characterizes them as acting as if they are better than everyone else and that they are superior to all the churchgoers. The teachers act proper in a way that shows superiority. This is what twain is making fun of, people thinking of themselves to be superior and in reality they are not who they pretend to be. Mark Twain uses satire by showing the hypocrisy that is in everyday life, he doesn’t use large exaggerations but points out small details. The satire that is used on Saturday Live is over the top characters that exaggerate the flaws of popular and political people. It is two different styles. I think that Mark Twain is a great writer and his satires are not as easy to understand as what is in literature today. Everything in our times is over the top.
I think Mark Twain makes fun of the churchgoers, teachers, and women. An example of this is when Tom is at the church and Mark Twain wrights how the children did not listen to the bible preaching they had only survived it. This shows how the children of the church hate Sunday school. Another example is the satire that Twain wrights about the women. He tells about how all the women would throw up their hands only to come down again when the teacher is reading poems. I also think that Mark Twain insults the teachers in the Sunday school class. This part is about when Mr. Thatcher comes inside the school and everyone starts showing off even the teachers.
Mark Twain is not only a very famous book writer, but he is also very good at satire. I believe that in his book Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain uses satire with different groups of people as well as certain situations. For instance, the character Tom Sawyer uses his quick wit and easily cons the boys to do all his hard work. Tom makes it so every kid in town wants to paint the fence that he was suppose to do as a punishment and chore. Mark Twain also criticizes the church goers. He makes all the churchgoers look stupid by making them seem like big show-offs. He portrays them as people that only do their job when they want to show-off in front of important people. He also describes them as very boring and not interesting. Another situation in the story where Mark Twain uses satire is when he makes the poodle that was in the church room, look stupid. The dog chases the pinch-beetle around and then gets tired and lays on the pinch-beetle which then stings it. And it all repeats all over again. It is hard to catch the satire in this story because Mark Twain does it in a settle way. Today's satire is way more obvious. Even though his satire is subtle I am enjoying this book because it challenges my thinking when reading it. I probably would have never picked this book to read but now I feel good to be reading such a famous book and now I know how unique of an author Mark Twain is.
Mark Twain satires a various number of people. For example, when Tom tricks boys into whitewashing the fence AND gets treasures from them, suggests that boys were gullible. As for girls, he made them seem dramatic and silly when they listen to the priest. They wave their arms and are in their own little world. Finally, he satirizes church goers. Now, having experience listening to the priest, it is not that very exciting. I can make it seem fun by getting a lesson out of it. Although, it is like NO ONE listens to the priest except the girls. For instance, when the beetle pinched the dog, the whole church went wild and loud! I still like the humor in Mark Twain's writing, because it makes it more enjoyable. Satires are a great way to make a story fun to read, and Mark Twain has clearly mastered the art.
I think Mark Twain is satirizing many people like Tom, Huck, Joe,and Aunt Polly.He is talking about how they look.For example Aunt Polly. I think she is a plump old lady.Mark Twain is doing a good job because when Tom, Huck, and Joe were at the island, they were doing silly things like being happy during the day, but then being sad and wanting to go home and missing everyone at night. Then the next morning it will be the same. Then the next day. Then the next, until Joe would be sad and missing his mom.Yes I think Mark Twain is very good at doing that because its hard to do unless your good at it. The thing is writing satires are being mean, but since he is writing them in a book and that they are funny its ok.
I believe that Mark Twain has poked fun at people who go to church because when the Judge walked in he said that all the teachers were acting loving and the men were trying to make themselves look better than the other. He also made fun of women by saying that they were overeating when the holy writings were being read at church. He makes it seem that the women in the church can barely stand the fact that the bible is so beautiful for the earth and when he makes fun of the teachers and the men when the judge walks in he makes them seem like they have no mercy and don’t care. I do think that some of his remarks are funny but I didn’t fully understand them.
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