“Sometimes I [Huck] would lift a chicken…and take it with me. Pap always said: have a chicken when you get the chance [he also said this about fruits and vegetables]… it wasn't wrong to borrow things if you wanted to pay them back… the widow did said… [stole] Jim said… the widow was partly right and Pap was partly right… [Tom said] stealing cattle and such… [is] stealing… it's not kind of style” ( Twain 65, 8). Huck has unresolved feelings toward stealing, due to the differing opinions of each role model (positive and negative) that influence his life. Although Huck was never arrested or punished by authorities for theft, the early American justice system provided specific punishments for thieves. “Burglary was punished in all the colonies...a capital B [was marked] with the right hand for the first offense...with the left hand for the second...if either [was] committed on the Lord's Day [it was marked] on his forehead like a mark of infamy. (Article 2 page 8). Theft was one of the few actions in early America that had clear retributions under the legal system and had to be obeyed by each colony. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn describes numerous crimes and reprisals that