The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Conflict With Social Authority
"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 man
that hadn't ever done me no harm"(Twain, pg. 98)
Despite the fact Huckleberry Finn (Huck) is a 12-13 year old boy,
one can't help but realize the hypocrisy in this statement that he said to
himself. It is hypocritical because what he is accusing Jim (the "African-
American ....
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