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In Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, the idea of children seeing things more clearly in their so-called ignorance than adults do with their so-called wisdom, is conveyed clearly throughout the text .With the use of unconscious irony, the vernacular of Southern America and interior monologue, Twain showcases the fallacies in assuming that a dichotomy should exist between adults and children in terms how they deal with their environments. Regardless of how children are looked at, whether they're innocent angels or cruel unethical brats or anywhere in between, the distribution with regards to adults is similar. In the novel, Huck is portrayed as a young soul, clearly coming from the lowest levels of white society. This means that Huck's distance from mainstream society makes him not easily convinced with doubts and reservations of the world around him and the ideas passed onto him. Twain's use of unconscious irony creates a tone of humour which in turn makes the reader feel a sense of comfort. When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them,--that is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better. Because Huck is a child, the world seems new to him. Everything he encounters is an occasion for thought. Huck's sense of worship and religion is clouded by the fact that he doesn't believe in the rituals and statements taught to him by the Widow. The irony about Huck’s reaction to Miss Watson warning him to behave or face the prospect of going to hell is made clear when even after the depiction of hell is meant to be scary, he finds it more interesting than anything else. By using the vernacular of Southern America, Twain uses the life-like quality to capture the way Huck talks again detailing the period of time as well as the character that the extract is based on. And she took snuff, too; of course that was all right, because she done it herself. Through the use of this technique, he clearly identifies contradictions with own independence of thought. He doesn’t understand why everything is so orderly which in turn makes the words of the Widow more hypocritical in that although life on earth may be comfortable, the sins created to go to hell are much more appealing. This enlightens the fact that because of his background, he does more than just apply the rules that he has been taught—he creates his own rules too. Interior monologue can be used to narrate the story in order to convey a character’s inner thoughts. Throughout this extract, it is shown that Huck’s character is very questioning of everything, including the world around him. This makes him a thoughtful narrator, never dismissing ideals and ventures as orderly and boring, when in fact they could mean a whole new adventure. That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it. Here she was a-bothering about Moses, which was no kin to her, and no use to anybody, being gone, you see, yet finding a power of fault with me for doing a thing that had some good in it. And she took snuff, too; of course that was all right, because she done it herself. Huck criticizes the Widow when she says that smoking was filthy and disgusting and that he had to stop. He refers to her not knowing things and still bad mouthing them. She talks about Moses, who wasn’t related to her and couldn’t help anybody since he is dead. Then continuously picks on Huck for trying to do something that he thinks would have been good for him. Huck’s lack of education and unworldliness is important, since these “deficiencies” allowed him, to view the civilised world with a fresh eye. Thus, in a pragmatic sense, it is gathered that children see things more clearly in their so-called ignorance than adults do with their so-called wisdom.