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The slave narratives that were linked on Mr. Wasserman’s blog, and the ones that we read in class, were a very useful way of learning.  Instead of reading books that were written years after the actual events, they were primary sources.  Also, they really gave the reader a look into the victims life.  While reading these pieces you saw the emotions that a slave really felt, and it was alot more then just sadness or regret.  They also made the reader realize all the different jobs or lessons needed to preform in just one day, and the different jobs or expectations the men, children, or women needed to live up to. 

The formal definition for satire is “A literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit.” And a prime example for each of the stratigies used in it was how Mark Twain mimics many key emotions and events during the time that The Adventures Of Huck Finn was written.  Basically, satire is just a way of critizing an idea that you are against, however you are preforming it in a nicer way.  For example, in Huck Finn, the author, Mark Twain greatly pulls lines straight out of old adventure books.  And this does not mean that he does not like the books, it is just ties many memories together.  Infact, when doing online research, i found that when a little boy, Twain was constently reading many of the adventure novels that were brought out in his own writing.  I do not believe that using satires is bad, i acutally enjoy it.  It is a form of writing that really shows the reader how much the author can relate his or her writing to instanses in their own life.