Mark Twain's Huckleberry Fin questions humans and their relationship with social authority
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"(98)
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…became more attentive to the reasons why people acted the way they do. Twain is implying that people in life reject many things that sometimes they are unfamiliar with. In addition, Huck who becomes familiar with the idea that friendship is more important than what social standards. Twain could also be saying that people are over impulsive, in the sense that they judge too soon, and do not become familiar with what they are judging.
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