Bogg’s
Shooting
By: Amelia Jones, Kennedy Newbold, Taylor Hickman, Mia Peterson,
Jenna O’Reilly, Marisa Rodenkirch
Summary Chapter 21
After drinking all night, the Duke and the King practice the balcony scene from
Romeo and Juliet and sword fight
One morning in Arkansas they decide they want to perform a redone version of
The Balcony Scene from Romeo and Juliet
While in town they meet the most interesting person, Bogg’s, a person known
for getting wasted and threatening people
A drunken Bogg’s started to threaten the richest person in town(Colonel
Sherburn). Sherburn tells Bogg’s to stop being disrespectful or he will get
hurt.
Bogg’s continues to insult Sherburn, then Sherburn comes and shoots Bogg’s.
The town just stood around and watched, but now wants to lynch Sherburn.
Summary Chapter 22
The mob makes their way to Sherburn’s house, but Sherburn doesn’t think the
mob has the courage to actually lynch anyone
The mob then leaves and goes off to the circus; halfway through the show a
drunk man tries to make his way to the center of the stage.
The crowd thinks the ringmaster is trying to stop the drunk man from climbing
on the horse and everyone thinks it is funny, but Huck is nervous the man will
hurt himself.
Later on, the Duke and the King perform their “Shakespeare” to a group of
people.
They decide they don’t like their original play and decide to put up a sign for the
Summary Chapter 23
The first night the Duke and the King told the town of an amazing show in hopes
they would trick the people into attending their awful performance.
The second night the town had gathered to watch the performance and had
been extremely disappointed and mad because of the awful performance.
By the third night, there were no newcomers, only the ones that showed up the
previous night’s seeking revenge with their pockets full of rotten eggs.
Before the show began, the King, the Duke, Huck and Jim all left to their raft to
escape the angry crowd.
Huck’s Development
1. What was the lesson learned?
a. He learns that adults are not always right in their
thinking.
2.
How is the lesson learned?
a. He realizes that his friendship with Jim is deeper
than any racism that might come between them.
3.
What is the evidence?
a. “... and after all we'd done for them scoundrels, here it was all come to
nothing, everything all busted up and ruined, because they could have
the heart to serve Jim such a trick as that, and make him a slave again
all his life, and amongst strangers, too, for forty dirty dollars” (497, Twain)
Style/ Literary Analysis
Style
● Informal and Youthful
Literary Analysis
● Alliteration
○ “ To be,or not to be; that is the bare bodkin, That makes calamity of so
long life.” (323 Twain)
● Repetition
○ “ Your newspaper call you the brave people so much that you think you
are braver than any other people- whereas you’re just as brave, and no
braver.” (346 Twain)
Section for Study Guide
1. Why is the town at the beginning of Chapter 21 described so carefully?
a. Twain wants the reader to see that not all the towns are the same. Not
everywhere is exactly the same. He also wants to show the readers the
towns different cultures and attitudes.
1. How is Colonel Sherburn described?
a. A proud looking man, that is the best dressed in town, and doesn’t care
about anyone but, himself.
Section for Study Guide
3.
How do the townspeople react to the killing?
a. The towns people become angry that Sherburn killed Boggs. They start a
mob and go to Sherburn’s house to lynch him.
4.
Why does Twain call it a “lynching bee”?
a. Everyone acts the same as in a spelling bee; everyone comes to watch,
and stand around the lynching.
5.
What is Twain’s purpose in inserting Sherburn’s address?
a. He’s saying that all of the people of the town are cowards and are afraid
to take action. They are all talk and no work.
Works Cited
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Penguin, 1986. Print.
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Twain, Mark, and Emory Elliott. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Perma- Bound
Classics ed. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1988. 300. Print.