Huck Finn - Chap. 22

After Sherman kills Boggs, a mob forms and grabs every clothesline they can so that they can lynch him. They were all very confident, probably thinking that they could just take him without a fight, until he stood on top of his roof with his gun and faced them like a man. I agree with Sherman on some of the points he made about the mob. He’s pretty much saying that mobs are cowards and foolish men get other foolish men to follow them. This is pretty true, even today. We see people rioting and getting fired up about stuff, but not really having a purpose to it.

I don’t like the fact, though, that he killed Boggs because he was drunk and didn’t know any better, but he stood his ground against the mob and scared every one of them off, so you’ve got to kind of respect him for that. I think he was pretty much saying that there was no way on earth he was going to go down by a bunch of cowards, but only if a man leading real men was to come and take him.

I like when Huck was at the circus and the supposed drunk man rode the horse because Huck was the only one who wasn’t laughing when he thought that the man was really drunk. He saw the danger in it. But the man was actually a performer, which I think relieved Huck and made him enjoy the circus more.

I like how the king and the duke put on a show and get laughed at because they were taking it so seriously. It was kind of funny how they only had twelve people show up and they all left except for a kid who fell asleep. That’s a pretty boring show. It was pretty smart on the kings part to put up a new posters that said no ladies or children allowed because that would definitely get the scum that populate that town to come.