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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 belon ....

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.... 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 patrols the area. He plans to turn in Jim, but Jim keeps on saying how much Huck means to him. Huck says, "I was paddling off, all in a sweat to tell on him; but when he says this, it seemed kind of take the tu ....