Huck Finn and Intruder in the Dust

Mark Twain and William Faulkner write completely different ways than each other. One is a very humorous writer that brings up many issues most people would never bring up. He fills his works with social satire and makes fun of all different types of writing from almost every era before his time. Mark Twain criticizes hypocrites, racists, aristocrats and any other category of person. The other of the two is unlike any other; his unconscious …

…effects on society are very easily noticed in their work. Mark Twain in Huckleberry Finn and William Faulkner in Intruder in the Dust show examples of racial stereotyping and how it can blind society to the truth. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” The ignorance and stupidity of the southern people during these time periods reared its ugly head on innocent men.