Q. The dominance of Huck’s adventures down the Mississippi River detracts from the impact of Twain’s social criticisms. Do you agree? Twain’s social criticisms are not hampered by the dominance of Huck’s adventures most of the time. The adventures are not the childish adventures that Twain used in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but they are a series of episodes that each target a different aspect of Southern society and ridicule …showed first 75 words of 1927 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1927 total…The third and final section contains a type of adventure similar to the first, except exceedingly childish and superficial in meaning, where the reader can lose interest in the book, and thus lose the impact of the previous satire. Finally, the style of Huck narrating the adventures serves to enforce the impact, for he does not really participate in the adventures, and lets the readers decide for themselves how they feel about the issues raised.