Sherburn doesn't entertain Boggs' drunken lectures, and ends up shooting Boggs dead. The bystanders form a mob and migrate over to Sherburn's house, in attempt to lynch him. But Sherburn calmly faces them, and delivers the most articulate speech of the novel. Here's how it starts:. The idea of you lynching anybody!
It's amusing. The idea of you thinking you had pluck enough to lynch a man! Because you're brave enough to tar and feather poor friendless cast-out women that come along here, did that make you think you had grit enough to lay your hands on a man? Why, a man's safe in the hands of ten thousand of your kind—as long as it's daytime and you're not behind him. It goes on from there—you should really read the whole thing. Basically, he's undermining the whole myth of Southern bravery. Chapter 22 Quotes.
Related Characters: Colonel Sherburn speaker. Related Themes: Society and Hypocrisy. Page Number and Citation : Cite this Quote. Explanation and Analysis:.
The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance. Chapter Boggs begins to shout for a man called Colonel Sherburn , whom he says he will kill. People laugh and talk, that is, until Sherburn steps Boggs continues to carry on about Sherburn. Townspeople try to shut him up, telling him he only has fifteen minutes till one Sherburn calmly steps out onto the roof above Cite This Page. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain's characters play an intricate roll in the literary structure of the book.
They come into Huck and Jim's life almost like the changing wind, and changed their characters indefinitely. The character that I found interesting was Colonel Sherburn who is the owner of the largest store in a town that Huck happens upon.
The town Huck ventures into a town that is in the middle of a festival; all the families have their wagons and are eating their dinners in them.
During their dinner many begin to drink whiskey very heavily and Huck saw three fights. Then the town drunk, Mr. Boggs ventures into the town for his monthly drink and that every one expected but did not fear what he would do. On man says, "I whisht old Boggs'd threaten me, 'cuz then I'd know I warn't gwyne to die for a thousan' year". Twain This just goes to show that the town had been through this whole routine before; they even knew whom Boggs was going to "chaw up.
Boggs announced to every one that had now begun to follow him, that he could not waist his time with them because he was there to kill Colonel Sherburn. So, he marched right up to the front Sherburn's store and demanded that he come out and "
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