Chapter 22 chart

Summary ( 8 )

• The towns people marched to Sherburn's house to lynch him.
• Sherburn steps out from his roof with a double-barrel gun in his hand.
• Sherburn talks about how the towns people are only half a man, and how they're a mob.
• Sherburn tells them that a lynching will only be done in the dark.
• Huck goes to the circus and enjoys it.
• A drunk man stumbles from the audience and the audience attacks him.
• The drunk man get's on the horse and ends up taking his clothes off, but after we find out that he was part of the circus act.
• The Duke puts up handbills telling about a play thats going to be happening, and at the bottom puts LADIES AND CHILDREN NOT ADMITTED, thinking that would catch the attention of the people or Arkansaw.
  
  

Vocab (8)
palings ( page 110)
grit ( page 110 )
acquit ( page 110 )
heeled ( page 111 )
parasol ( page 111 )
gaudiest ( page 113 )
lunkheads ( page 113 )
handbills ( page 113 )

Key Phrases & Quotes (5)
"Why, a man's safe in the hands of ten thousand of your kind - as long as it's day-time and you're not behind him" ( page 110 )
"The average man's a coward." ( page 110 )
"Why don't your juries hang murderers? Because they're afraid the man's friends will shoot them in the back, in the dark - and it's just what they would do." ( page 110 )
"You brought part of a man - Buck Harkness, " ( page 110 )
"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." ( page 111 )

Questions (5)
Why would they let children march with them to lynch someone, they don't have cops to do that?
Why did they have to tear down Sherburn's fence?
Who is Buck Harkness, and why is he only half a man?
When the people are laughing at the drunk man, why isn't Huck, does he care about people now?
When the man was on the horse did he take ALL his clothes off?