According to Ernest Hemingway, "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn." Along with Hemingway, many others believe that Huckleberry Finn is a great book, but few take the time to notice the abundant satire that Twain wove into the novel. The most notable 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-nineteenth century. The first aspect of society that Twain ridicules is its attempt at respectability. Huck Finn, a boy called "white trash", grew up believing completely in what society taught him. Society tries to teach the difference between right and wrong, but focuses so much on learning from books instead of virtues, that children have a very wrong idea of ​​righteousness. A conversation between Tom Sawyer and his gang of thieves shows how kids are influenced by society and believe they have to follow exactly what is written regardless of what is right. "...'And keep them until they are redeemed.' “Redeemed?” “I don't know. But that's what they do. I've seen it in the books, and so obviously that's what we have to do." "Well, how can we do it if we don't know what it is?" "Why, it's all to blame, we have to do it. Didn't I tell you it's in the books? Do you want to do something different than what's in the books and mix it up?"" (pages 8-9) Even though asking someone for a ransom is a crime and not acceptable, because of the way Huck was raised , he has no idea that what Tom's gang wants to do is not permissible. Twain also satirizes the hypocrisy of society. While Tom's band of thieves were... a paper medium... something very evil. Twain uses Jim to counter this concept, allowing him to influence Huck to come to the conclusion that a black man is not inferior to the white man. Ultimately, Twain must bring back Jim and Huck freed from their adventures on the river. return to society. Jim discovers that he has always been a free man and Aunt Sally decides to adopt Huck and civilize him, which she cannot stand. In the society that Huck and Jim lived in, blacks were inferior to whites, but Twain satirizes this fact by making them equal in his novel. The fact that killing people is acceptable and even fun is another way Twain ridicules society. It shows that sometimes what is accepted and seemingly respectable is not always right. Mark Twain was very successful in writing an interesting, entertaining and satirical novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.