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Which line supports the theme that the customs of "civilized" society are confining and intolerable.

adapted from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
Judge Thatcher hoped to see Tom a great lawyer or a great soldier someday. He said he meant to look to it that Tom should be admitted to the
National Military Academy and afterward trained in the best law school in the country, in order that he might be ready for either career or both.
Huck Finn's wealth and the fact that he was now under the Widow Douglas' protection introduced him into society-no, dragged him into it,
hurled him into it-and his sufferings were almost more than he could bear. The widow's servants kept him clean and neat, combed and
brushed, and they bedded him nightly in unsympathetic sheets that had not one little spot or stain which he could press to his heart and know
for a friend. He had to eat with a knife and fork; he had to use napkin, cup, and plate; he had to learn; he had to talk so properly that speech was
become insipid in his mouth; the bars and shackles of civilization shut him in and bound him hand and foot.

Which line supports the theme that the customs of "civilized" society are-example-1
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. He had to eat with a knife and fork; he had to use napkin, cup, and plate; he had to learn his book, he had to go to church; he had to talk so properly that speech was become insipid in his mouth; whithersoever he turned, the bars and shackles of civilization shut him in and bound him hand and foot.

Explanation: edmentum

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The last one

"He had to talk so properly that speech was become insipid in his mouth."

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