1. Huck Finn Matures
Irony, according to the Oxford Dictionary, is defined as "use of language that has an inner meaning for a privileged audience and an outer meaning for the persons addressed or concerned." ... In A very interesting example of the situational irony Twain uses in chapter 27 is when the townspeople actually show compassion toward the blacks, which contradicts Twain's main theme. ...
Lester also argues in his essay that when Huck speaks of Jim in the end of the novel saying, "I knowed he was white inside,"" he is displaying "proof of liberalism or compassion, but evidence of an inability to relinquish whiteness as a badge of superiority. " However, Justin Kaplan quotes Mark Twain elaborating on growing up in a slaveholding society, saying, "Conscience can be trained to approve any wild thing you want it to approve if you begin its education early and stick to it."" ... Perhaps it is in the very nature of humor as he defined it like that, like Huck, its outcast hero, Mark t...