Huck Finn
Emotion is defined as a feeling, a state of mental agitation or disturbance, and mental state that arises spontaneously rather than through conscious effort and is often accompanied by physiological changes. People’s emotions can sometimes grow so strong that it makes them crazy. This can seem really hilarious and humorous in certain situations. Some authors like to use this humor in there novels to really bring out the character. Mark Twain is an author that likes to satirize over emotional people in his novels. In his novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the author rejects sentimentalism through the characters Emmeline Grangerford, the King, the Duke, and Aunt Sally.
Mark Twain uses the character Emmeline Grangerford to satirize over emotional people, during that novel the picaro and the main character, Huckleberry Finn stays with the Grangerfords, a southern aristocratic family. When staying on their plantation, Huck discovers that the Grangerfords have a deceased daughter, Emmeline, who they miss very much. Even though it’s sad to see that their daughter died it is funny to see how much attention she has received after her death. First, the family hung up all of her paintings which are clearly terrible paintings, which were all very depressing only dealing with death. The family also cherished her scrapbook filled with poems. She called these poems tributes because they were written to people whom have just died. There poems compared to her paintings were both bad, and one can see that she is not a talented writer even though her family thought so. The last thing that Huck mentions about Emmeline is “They kept Emmeline’s room trim and nice and all the fixings in it were just the way she liked to have them while she was alive, and nobody ever slept there.” Only the mother cleaned the room, even the slaves that they owned couldn’t clean it. All of this adoration towards her was unnecessary. Twain used this girl and her family to satirize a...
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