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") of (stealing children from somebody he didn't even know) is the exact same thing slave owners did when they brought slaves from Africa. Huck has this "passing on of what he denies" ....

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