When rip returns from the forest, no one seems to recognize him. when he describes himself as "a loyal subject of the king, god bless him! ", he sends the town into an uproar. why was this a problem?

This was a problem as during his years of sleep, the United States had already been formed and the King no longer has any control over it.

Explanation:

Washington Irving's short story "Rip Van Winkle" tells the story of how Rip Van Winkle slept through the formation of the United States. The setting of the story is before and after the American Revolutionary War, during which Winkle was asleep for two decades and did not know anything.

Rip Van Winkle was a Dutch- American villager residing in Catskill Mountains in New York. One day he went up to the mountains to escape his wife's nagging, met a group of old men and hung around with them, drinking their wine. When he woke up, he found that everything's changed. On reaching his village, he was asked who he voted for which prompted him to proclaim his loyalty to King George III. The townspeople laughed at him, some even wondering if he was a spy from England. Reality was, he had been asleep for around 20 years during which the United States had been to war and got its independence and thus, the election and the different surroundings.

        its hard for some people to get along and that’s the case for douglass and canot. most of the time when people do not agree with each other its because they have different presperctives, and that is the case here.

captain canot was never a slave so but he was a slaver and a slave ship captain and just like the slave master's he tought it was it was totally normal, he used captain conot is a cruel man who enjoys whipping slaves but never   got whipped he saw it has a destiny for the slave to be a slave and the slaver to be a slaver   but douglass has suffered whoppings cut   even for no reason sometimes. douglass believed that slavery was not natural to black people, they need to study and learn how to read and write. he knew they have rights.

it was really not the captain’s fault he was just brainwashed by the system and when your brainwashed by the system its hard not to be brainwashed. but the reason douglass wants this is because he has suffered he knows how it feels and will do anything to stop that.

the answer is a.

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