“I think they are a pack of flat-heads for not keeping the palace themselves ’stead of fooling them away like that…”
Here Huck is arguing with Tom about genies. Tom was telling Huck how if you rub a bottle and a genie comes out he has to do anything you say, even build u a castle made out of diamonds before the next sunrise. Huck thought this was stupid how the genies didn’t keep the castles and do favors to themselves. Twain could be speaking out about slavery, and how we make people do all of our work for us without any compensation. The role of the slaves and the genies are the same. Huck feels that tits unfair for the genies to do all the work. This shows is a metaphor that tells me Huck thinks slavery is unfair, possibly this could come up later in the story.
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