According to Ernest Hemingway, "All modern American literature comes from a book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn." Along with Hemingway, many others think that Huckleberry Finn is an excellent book, but few take the time to notice the abundant satire that Twain has interwoven throughout the novel. The most striking subject of his irony is society. Mark Twain uses humor and effective writing to make The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn a satire of upper-middle-class American society in the mid-19th century. The first aspect of society that Twain ridicules is its attempt at respectability. Huck Finn, a boy nicknamed "white trash", grew up completely believing what society taught him. Society attempts to teach the difference between right and wrong, but focuses so much on book learning rather than virtues that children have a very false idea of ​​righteousness. A conversation between Tom Sawyer and his gang of thieves shows how the boys are influenced by society and believe that they must follow exactly what is written, no matter what is right. “…'And keep them until they are redeemed.' “Ransomed? What is it?” “I don’t know. But that's what they do. I've seen it in the books, and so of course that's what we have to do." "Well, how can we do it if we don't know what it is? "Why, blame everything , we have to do it. Don't I tell you it's in the books? Do you want to do something different than what's in the books and confuse everything? Ransoming someone is a crime and is not acceptable, because of the way Huck was raised he has no idea that what Tom's gang wants to do is not allowed. Twain also satirizes the hypocrisy of society. Whereas Tom's gang of thieves were a... middle of paper ... something very evil. Twain uses Jim to counter this concept, allowing him to influence Huck to ultimately come to the conclusion that a black man is not inferior to the white man. In the end, Twain must bring Jim and Huck back free from their adventures on the river. reintegrate into society. Jim discovers that he has always been a free man and Aunt Sally decides to adopt Huck and civilize him, which he cannot stand. In the society where Huck and Jim lived, black people were inferior to white people, but Twain satirizes this fact by making them equal in his novel. The fact that killing people is acceptable, even humorous, is another way Twain ridicules society. It proves that sometimes what is accepted and seemingly respectable is not always right. Mark Twain had great success writing an interesting, entertaining and satirical novel, The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn..