Miss Watson very religious but she also has a dark side. Another example of debased religious belief is Miss Watson. Huck wants physical gifts to come out of praying but Miss Watson tell him that the gifts that come out of prayer are not physical but “spiritual”. He believes that if someone prays for something then when can’t they get it. Huck believes that praying is not worth doing since he believes that he gets nothing out of it. In the beginning of the novel Miss Watson tells Huck that he should pray for “spiritual gifts” (pg. Throughout the novel Huck does not believe in religion.

In “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” there are many examples of satire in the debased religious belief such as Huck’s rejection of prayer, Miss Watson, and Huck and Jim’s superstitions. Satire is used a lot in the novel by portraying the degrade of religious belief, romanticism, and sentimentality. Satire is a major literary device that is used and is defined by the comic portrayal of mankind’s departure from reason or common sense or ethical and moral behavior. So, Huck and Jim start their journey down the river which many different events take place. While traveling down the river Huck decides to stop at Jackson’s Island and finds a slave named Jim who was a slave to Miss Watson and escaped when he found out the Widow was going to sell him. While planning he finds a raft and that is how he leaves and goes down the river. Huck then devises a plan that entails making Pap believe that someone broke into the cabin, murdered Huck and threw Huck’s body in the river. This makes Huck want to leave so Huck starts to plan to escape. While in the cabin Pap does not allow Huck to leave. Pap then takes Huck to his cabin in Illinois across the Mississippi river three miles from St, Petersburg. The situation Huck is in becomes bad when his father, Pap, who is an alcoholic and had been missing for a while shows up looking for Huck. Petersburg, Missouri living with a woman who goes by Widow Douglas who adopted Huck and a woman named Miss Watson.

The novel “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” created by Mark Twain and is based on a character/narrator named Huckleberry Finn.

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