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How Mark Twain Criticizes Law
In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, we immediately notice that the author, Twain, uses satire to get his points across. We can see him satirize Law in the beginning of the novel when the Judge has to make a decision based upon not what is morally right, but what the law says. During the twenty years after Twain's book was published, we saw the emergence of the Black Codes in the South. Once again, courts weren't using good moral values to enforce laws, but they were enforcing what somebody wrote on a piece of paper. We see this nowadays, except these laws are bent in the worst ways possible, and people are having trouble seeing that the laws that protect us are being used against us.

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