A Little Mark Twain

I just finished reading through Ch. 10 of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court...
And I have no idea what to make of it.

I've really never been in this situation before; in fact, I'm known to say far too much rather than not enough when it comes to anything literature-related. All my past English teachers both hated and loved me for that very reason.

But, I really can't seem to pick up on anything but the literal. I have to say that I find some passages really funny... Maybe detect a little irony, some sarcasm... Yeah, but that's it. The story just seems so literal that I can't figure out what to say about it. I don't know where to begin or even how I would begin if I wanted to analyze it.

What do I know about Mark Twain? Not much, other than what I've just vaguely heard from other people. I've read Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, and I loved both... But, I had a problem picking up on the language then, and it seems to not have corrected itself since that point. Feels like his writing is styled around the "off-the-cuff" feeling, kind of how I would consider my thought processes run. He'll -- meaning Twain as the main character's voice -- talk about one thing, maybe run off on a tangent that he claims we'll later understand better, and then go into another little "story" or whatever you want to call it.

I'll feel better when I get an idea of what everyone else thinks, and hopefully we'll all be a little lost... Not so much "lost" but instead a little "shallow"... Yeah, I just feel like all I'm getting from it is the shallow part of the story and missing some sort of deeper meaning.

Any ideas?