![]() This was originally a lecture on YouTube for my Ap Language and Composition students. Of course, there are many more than thirteen targets in this masterpiece, but this is already long for a Medium article. You take an arrow out of your quiver and fire it. The writer not only wants to poke fun at society but change society. The writer is upset about a lot of things. Think of satirists as archers - or a modern equivalent, but less romantic, a sharpshooter. Twain Targets Thirteen Things in His Satire He’d make me laugh, and Kurt Vonnegut said that Hemingway never told a good joke in his life. Whether or not Hemingway was right that “all American literature comes from one source: Huckleberry Finn” is true, well, that’s debatable, especially since it’s hard to see the much similarity between Hemingway and Twain - two writers I adore, but if I would have a heavenly drink with only one - yep! It would be Twain. ![]() ![]() Of course, you can’t talk about Twain’s masterpiece of American Literature, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, without talking about satire. Subscribe to “ Down with Bowne.” Hey, Scholars and Fans of Literature ![]()
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