Huckleberry Finn ch 19-22

In chapters 19-22, and all the previous chapters in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, death plays a significant, unique, and note able role. Early in the book, Twain introduces death to the reader when Huck fakes his death to escape pap's cabin, but since this event in the novel it appears that Twain has simply taken the idea and ran with it. Death has either occured or been involved in almost every scene that Huck is on land. The reader cannot help but feel as if Twain may be constantly creating death as an aspect, to poke fun at it and play down it's level of seriousness. Each event of a character's death, it does not seem to be a large deal or effect Huck emotionally on any level whatso ever,which is very ironic because death is such a big deal in real life. This is ironic because Huck is bothered by many other things emotionally, but death does not seem to shake him or any other characters at all. Twain's intentions of this may be to make the reader see death as en even larger aspect in real life by playing it down so greatly in the novel.