HF+Chapters+20+to+23

Chapter 20 Plot Summary Sherburn-shoots Boggs Boggs- drunk, riding on horse through town calling out Sherburn Jim-stays on raft Huck-tags along w/ Duke & King King- practices w/ Duke Romeo & Juliet also goes ashore Duke- putting up flyers about play him & King are performing soon
 * King tells Huck & Jim not to show a light until they pass the town
 * King & Duke take shelter from storm in wigwam
 * Jim & Huck take turns as a watch guard
 * Later Duke & King practice play Romeo & Juliet
 * Morning comes-King, Duke & Huck go ashore
 * King & Huck look for people find them in town meeting
 * King makes up story of him being pirate
 * Towns people pity him & give him $ around $80
 * Duke prints bills (flyers) for their play & sees $300 reward for Jim
 * Three meet Jim back on the raft –stay there until following morning
 * Characterization Chap 20 & 21**

__ Themes/ Focus Ideas Chap 20 & 21 __ **Social Conditioning-** Huck & Jim have their own rules before King & Duke come aboard. **Lying-** King always making up stories to have people pity him Ex: story about him being a pirate in chapter 20. By doing this he plays off their religion and says “ Don’t you thank me, Don’t you give me no credit its all thanks to those people….”. He gets the towns people emotional and someone says “give him a collection”. The town feels sorry for him.
 * King & Duke come aboard- now social class ranks take place
 * Jim & Huck are at the bottom they bow to King & Duke saying your majesty.
 * King & Duke at battle between who is the highest rank.
 * Both are at the top of hierarchy

-Huck allows the lying to stand because he does not want confusion and feels that if lying is what makes them happy he is going to let it be.

Chapter 21:The King and Duke turn their attention to performing scenes from Shakespeare. The King learns the lines for Juliet and practices sword-fighting with the Duke in order to perform part of Richard III. The Duke decides that a great encore would be for the King to perform Hamlet's soliloquy. Unfortunately, without the text at hand, the Duke must piece the famous lines together from memory. The end result is quite different from the true soliloquy, but still contains some elements of drama.  The men stop in a nearby town and decide to set up their show. They rent the courthouse for a night and print up bills proclaiming how wonderful the performance will be. Unfortunately, a circus is also in town, but they hope people will still attend their dramatic performances. During the day of the show a man named Boggs rides into town. He is a drunk who comes in each month and threatens to kill a man, but never actually harms anyone. This time, he is after a Colonel Sherburn, the wealthiest man in town and a storeowner. Boggs stands outside the store and screams insults at the Colonel. The Colonel comes out of his store and tells Boggs that he will put up with the insults until one o'clock and after that he will kill him if Boggs utters even one word. Boggs continues relentlessly, and at exactly 1pm, the Colonel appears and kills Boggs on the spot. At that exact moment, Boggs's daughter approaches, hoping to save her father, but she is too late. After Boggs is laid to rest, the crowd turns into a mob and concludes that Sherburn should be lynched for the killing

-throughout chapter 21 huck is exposed to the foolishness in human nature through some of the characters actions.(the lack of civilization)

CHAPTER 23 PLOT SUMMARY In chapter 23 the performance is put on. As we know it, this is a scam, but as for the people this is a night on the town. The poeple go in and pay admission and the show begins. Before you know it the people are laughing out of their seats and then after just a short performance the play ends. The poeple are furious and bound to not be the only ones getting ripped in this situation. They tell others the play was awesome and as the next two nights go they make their money as planned. Now you have the furious crowds who are enraged becuase of the rip off. The Duke and Huck flee with profits and all

Characterizaton: King and Duke are showing off there theif like ways. Jim tells Huck of his daughter which shows how much he misses his family. Also, Huck shows growth in this part because he is intersted in Jims family problems and that he has respect for Jim and was able to look past the color of his skin and look at him as a person,

Although these chapters involving the duke and the dauphin appear purely comic on the surface, a dark commentary undercuts the comedy in virtually every episode. On the surface, the duke and the dauphin seem to be just two bumbling con artists, but they present an immediate threat to Huck and Jim. The two men constantly and cruelly toy with Jim's precarious status as a runaway slave and even use this fact to their own advantage when they print the fake leaflet advertising a reward for Jim's capture. Moreover, the fact that the duke and the dauphin run their first scam at a sacred event—a religious meeting—demonstrates their incredible malice. At the same time, however, it also suggests that the religious revival meeting may be as much of a scam as any of the “royal” pair's shenanigans. Continuing the pattern that we have seen throughout //Huckleberry Finn//, nearly everyone Huck and Jim encounter on the river is an unsavory character or a fake in one way or another.
 * Analysis**

The lynch mob charges through the streets, proceeds to Sherburn's house, and knocks down the front fence. The crowd quickly backs away, however, as Sherburn greets them from the roof of his front porch, rifle in hand. After a chilling silence, Sherburn delivers a haughty speech on human nature in which he attacks the cowardice and mob mentality of the average person. Sherburn tells the crowd that no one will lynch him in the daytime. The mob, chastened, disperses.
 * CH22**

Huck then goes to the circus, a “splendid” show with a quick-witted clown. A performer, pretending to be a drunk, forces himself into the ring and tries to ride a horse, apparently hanging on for dear life. The crowd roars in amusement, except for Huck, who cannot bear to watch the poor man in danger. That night, only twelve people attend the duke's performance, and they jeer throughout the entire show. The duke then prints another handbill, this time advertising a performance of The King's Cameleopard [Giraffe] or The Royal Nonesuch. Bold letters across the bottom read, “Women and Children Not Admitted.”