Huckleberry Finn Essay 2

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a vessel by which Mark Twain shares his views with the world. In the South where he lived, there was still much bitterness towards ex-slaves and this dictated what was proper and what was not. Instead of writing a manifesto of his views, these views were consolidated with Huck's character. Through Huck's eyes, we are not only able to see Twain's views but we also see them justified. Twain's satirical view of religion manifests itself when Miss Watson confronts Huck on the subject of Heaven. She feels that Heaven is a place where
"all a body would have to do there was to go around all day long with a harp and sing, forever, and ever."
Huck is disgusted by this and says that he "didn't think much of it." and goes on to say that he wants to go to the "bad place" because the widow said that Tom Sawyer didn't have much of a chance of going to the "good place". Not only is this Twain's way of saying that religion, taken at face value, is bunk, but is also his observation of ...

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