As yesterday's session focused on writing an essay analyzing Twain's use of satire to condemn religious hypocrisy, we today analyzed the next chapters of the novel and identified further examples of religious satire. We discussed the irony of the feuding family displaying a copy of Bunyan's "Pilgrims Progress" in their living room and attending a church service about "brotherly love" since this family engages in wholesale murders of a neighboring clan for reasons that have been long forgotten . We further discussed Huck's revulsion when he observes this violence, again highlighting the moral depredation he sees on "land" as contrasted with the Edenic life of the river. Nina raised some questions about the plot development as Huck and Jim are forced to "host" two con artists on their raft which I addressed and noted Twain's barbed criticism of the rural populations who are so easily duped . Based on today's discussion of satire and yesterday's essay work on satire analysis , for homework Nina is writing a second essay on satire in the novel using examples from today's lesson.