For anyone that's read Huck Finn before I have a couple questions. I think this is a good book so far but I can't understand some of the concepts or some of the words that Jim is saying. I'd appreciate it if you could help me with a couple of the questions assigned to me.
1. "So the duke said these Arkansaw lunkheads couldn't come up to Shakespeare; what they wanted was low comedy - maybe something ruther worse than low comedy, he reckoned." What literary device is Twain using? (chapter 22 when the duke and king perform the show that only 12 people show up at and leave before it's even done)
2. Respond to: "The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is - a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any man at the head of it is beneath pitifulness."
3. Why does Colonel Sherburn (the proud looking best dressed man in town) shoot the town drunk Boggs? I thought it was because he wanted to show that everyone in the town is a coward, and the average man is a coward, but I'm not sure.
4. Why does Twain set these chapters in a "one horse town" in Arkansas? How does the setting reinforce the point about human nature that Twain is trying to make? This question I'm just completely blank on...
thanks for all the help
1. "So the duke said these Arkansaw lunkheads couldn't come up to Shakespeare; what they wanted was low comedy - maybe something ruther worse than low comedy, he reckoned." What literary device is Twain using? (chapter 22 when the duke and king perform the show that only 12 people show up at and leave before it's even done)
2. Respond to: "The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is - a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any man at the head of it is beneath pitifulness."
3. Why does Colonel Sherburn (the proud looking best dressed man in town) shoot the town drunk Boggs? I thought it was because he wanted to show that everyone in the town is a coward, and the average man is a coward, but I'm not sure.
4. Why does Twain set these chapters in a "one horse town" in Arkansas? How does the setting reinforce the point about human nature that Twain is trying to make? This question I'm just completely blank on...
thanks for all the help
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