In his novel, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," Mark Twain satirizes many different aspects of what life was like in his society. He skewers religion, the violence of human nature, and slavery, voicing his opinions through Huck, who through his amusing ways of thinking and speaking, consistently questions and reflects upon aspects of human nature such as hypocrisy, lies, morals, and superstitions. Twain’s satirizing tone and irony supports his assessment of a flawed American society. Religion is a major target of Mark Twain’s satirical comments of shore society, poking fun at these people and how they practice religion yet own slaves and feud with their neighbors. In Chapter 1, while living in the Widow Douglass’ home, Huck had been exposed to and forced upon many rituals, such as mealtime prayer, that seemed meaningless to him, “you had to wait for the widow to tuck her head and grumble over the victuals, though there weren’t really nothing the matter with them” (1). Huck depicts the widow as an overly passionate Christian who is dedicated to prayer and bible study. However, through Huck’s blatant honesty and humorous comments, the reader sees her tendency to curse and “smoke snuff.” This irony is illustrates the hypocrisy of the widow, a symbol of religious southern whites, who is supposed to set an example for morality, yet ends up contradicting herself. In Chapter 18, the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons are another example of religious satire. The feud between the two families had been going on for nearly thirty years and by this time no one remembers what the feud was about. It is obvious that the families hate each other but every Sunday, they all attend the same c hurch. The men would take their guns and keep them between their knees. On a particular Sunday, Huck mentions the sermon was bout brotherly love. The irony is that the family thought it was an excellent sermon and talked about “faith