Samuel L. Clemans, whose pen name is Mark Twain was one of American's greatest
writers who was known around the world for his works like Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry
Finn. He is recognized as many to be one of the greatest American writers. I just finished
one of his books The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn which I felt was a very moving
book . The book is about a young boy (Huck Finn) whose father is and old drunken
alcoholic. Twain satires alcoholism, which is mentioned through out this novel. When pap
who constantly drinks and is violent with Huck, came home drunk and " He cased me with
a clasp knife and says he would kill me "{mark 29). Because of the alcoholism, pap did
not care about Huck, just his money, so he wouldn't care to kill him, as he never knew
what family meant.
Many parts of the book satires racism. One time pap is walking through town and
sees a black man all cleaned up walking the road to go vote, " It was " lection day, and I
was just about......
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