Satire In Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer

His Own Voice

Mark Twain has a distinct writing style that includes had opinionated satire and presented social classes. These elements are present in the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. In ch.4 of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, a judge comes to Tom’s religious school and tries to get the students attention by saying, “Now, children, I want you all to sit up just as straight and pretty as you can and give me all of your attention for a minute or two. That’s the way good little boys and girls should do.” When writing this, Twain has demonstrated his satire against religion and the church. In the text, Twain is mocking the rules and mindset of the people of the church. In Mark’s lifetime he lived in a gilded age (when a country looks too

He could have formed a hate against the church, that may have seemed gilded to him. Being familiar with the cover up found in the gilded age that he lived in, Twain may have pulled the similarities between these corrupt elements in society. Mark may have been compelled to mock or make fun of these two corporations because of his strong emotion. This is one way that Mark Twain’s writing style is very unique. In another section in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, a richer and more fortunate man named J. Walters is assumed to have thought, “It would have been music to his soul to hear the whisperings, ‘by jings, don’t you wish you was Jeff?’” By writing this, Twain has demonstrated a social class element found in many of his stories. He wanted to express the different types and attitudes from these different social classes. In his days, Mark was fortunate enough to provide and thrive in a corrupt society, while many could not. Many of his jobs (such as a entrepreneur and a journalist) may have exposed him to the blend of culture and wealth found in the corrupted, gilded age of the 19th century. Being emotionally locked with these unfortunate situations in society, Mark may have been compelled to incorporate this into his