Read the excerpt from chapter 23 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. "Don't it s'prise you de way dem kings carries on, Huck?"

"No," I says, "it don't."

"Why don't it, Huck?"

"Well, it don't, because it's in the breed. I reckon they're all alike."

What does the dialogue between Huck and Jim reveal about Huck’s beliefs?

What are some of the images and diction used by the narrator that evoke the "dream of america"?

What does water to a paste meaning?

"such has been the patient suffrence of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to after their former systems of government. the history of the present king of great britain is a history of reapeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishedment of an absolute tyranny over these states." which statement best describes the excerpt