Answer:
The goal of satire is to criticize someone or something such as an action, a situation, a behavior; it usually features sharp and sarcastic ideas. In this excerpt from the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, Huck is describing one of his encounters with Miss Watson, his guardian's sister. Miss Watson wants Huck to accept religion, so she is telling him to pray every day, and as a reward, he will get what he asks for. However, Huck, tired of not understanding it, asks Miss Watson to do it for him much to her dismay - he believes she may be luckier and gets what he has asked for in his prayers. Miss Watson's irate reply and Huck's unaffected comment emphasize the mocking nature of the theme in this excerpt.
