The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Conflict With Social Authority
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"It was according to the old saying, 'give a [African-American] an inch and
he'll take an ell.'…Here was this [African-American] which I had as good as
helped to run away, coming right out flat-footed and saying he would steal
his children - children that belonged to a man I didn't even know; a ....
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.... discrepancies with authority,
which includes Miss Watson, Pap, and social values of the 1800's in general.
Through The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the character of Huck, Mark
Twain question humans and their relationship with social authority and the
hypocrisy in their actions.
Huck has a "desire" to turn in Jim a few times in the book. One
instance is when they are on their way to Cairo and they think they see it.
Huck takes the canoe by himself to talk to this "police" boat that p ....
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