Topic > Exploring Satire and Hypocrisy in Huckleberry Finn

Tom Sawyer invented a heist game and shared it with all his friends. But since “it would be wicked to do it [rob and kill people] on Sunday” (Twain 10), they decided to choose another day. For these naive children, only on Sunday they have to be virtuous and on other days they can be as evil as they want. Likewise, the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons went to church and “carried their pistols with them, and held them between their knees or kept them handy against the wall” (Twain 109), ready to kill each other for every second. It's ridiculous that the feud between two families had lasted nearly thirty years while "everyone said it was a good sermon" about brotherly love and free grace. The irony is that on the very second day many people were killed during a clash. Not only those truculent civilized Christians, but also benevolent citizens like Miss Watson go against the morality of religion. “That's Miss Watson – she teases me all the time, and treats me bad, but she always said she wouldn't sell me to Orleans” (Twain 43). Miss Watson never treats Jim like a person and continually enslaves him like cattle. Christianity teaches them to love and help each other and slavery obviously goes against that. Furthermore, religion can sometimes be used to kidnap