Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Chapter 22 Chart/List

Chapter 22 Chart/List
Summary (8):
People were yelling for Sherburn to get lynched for killing Boggs. (109)
Colonel Sherburn said the average man is a coward. (110)
Sherburn talks about Buck Harkness. (111)
Huck goes to a circus and doesn’t really have any fun. (111)
The Duke made handbills about a performance of The King’s Camelopard or The Royal Nonesuch. (113)
Sherburn gave a speech to the mob about human nature and how nobody is going to lynch him. (110 , 111)
After the speech gave by Sherburn, the mob of people broke apart.(111)
Huck was some what amused by the people in the circus. (111)


Vocabulary (8):
· Deliberate-carefully weighed. (110)
· Outgaze-to gaze beyond. (110)
· Scornful-contemptuous. (110)
· Acquit-to relieve from charge of crime or fault. (110)
· Parasol-a light weight umbrella used by women as sunshade. (111)
· Cavort-to prance or caper about. (112)
· Loafed-to pass time. (111)
· Astonishment-overpowering surprise or wonder. (113)

Quotes (5):
“Tear down the fence! Tear down the fence!” (110)
“The idea of you lynching anybody! It’s amusing.”(110)
“The average man’s a coward.” (110)
“The average man don’t like trouble and danger. You don’t like trouble and danger.” (112)
“Knock him down! Throw him out!” (112)

Questions (5):
What did Sherburn’s speech symbolize?
What was Huck doing at a circus?
Why did the clowns kill people at the circus?
Why were the people at the circus chanting; “knock him down! Throw him out!”?
Why is the Duke and the King going to have a different play?

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