When Huck leaves the raft and ventures into the "sivilized" world, he
encounters a variety of people and situations. Select one of the following
episodes and comment on what Huck learns from these "sivilized" people and what
is Twain's purpose in this episode? CHOICES: The Grangerfords or The Wilks or
The Duke and Dauphin or Colonel Sherburn and Boggs.
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BEFORE YOU DID. SAY SOMETHING NEW. (The deadline to post a response to this
question is midnight, Tuesday, January 1, 2013.)
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Huck encounters Colonel Sherburn and Boggs in Arkansas. During this encounter Twain writes about an argument between Boggs, the town drunk, and Colonel Sherburn. Boggs stands outside of Colonel Sherburn's store yelling for Colonel Sherburn to come outside and meet the man he swindled. Colonel Sherburn is tired of the yelling and gives him until one to cut it out, however, at one Boggs is still there. The Colonel comes out and shoots Boggs. After this one individual said Sherburn should be hung. The entire crowd joins in on the event and march to Sherburn's front door. Sherburn comes out on the roof with a gun, and they all begin to back up. While the entire crowd did not want to hang Sherburn they all joined in because they have been raised to follow others. Society is cowardice and has a lack of logic, as Sherburn accurately says. The average man does not look for trouble, however, they were too cowardice to stand up for what they truly believed. I believe Twain used this event to relate back to slavery. The same is for slavery, many people did not believe in slavery, however, nobody spoke up to make this change. I believe this event showed Huck how society really was. It showed him how society tended to follow instead of lead. Also, Twain used this event to show Huck that terrible acts like slavery are completely ignored, yet a drunk man yelling leads to death.
Joshua Matthews
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