Colonel Sherburn In Huck Finn

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Along with meeting the Duke and the King, Huck encounters members of “sivilized” society, including Colonel Sherburn. Colonel Sherburn is a store owner who shoots a local drunk, Boggs, for threatening to kill him and continues to insult and taunt Sherburn until he appears on the street. After Sherburn kills Boggs, a mob of townspeople decides to confront the wealthy Colonel Sherburn, without understanding the entire story; the mob is created by one voice and one person’s opinion. In Chapter 22, the mob makes an appearance at Colonel Sherburn’s home, expecting to lynch him at nightfall. Though, Sherburn steps out of the store and tells the townspeople, “The average man’s a coward. In the North he lets anybody walk over him that wants to, and goes home and prays for a humble spirit to bear it. …show more content…
Your newspaper call you a brave people so much that you think you are braver than any other people—whereas you’re just as brave, and no braver. Why don’t your juries hang murdered? Because they’re afraid the man’s friends will shoot them in the back, in the dark—and that’s just what they would do.” (Twain 145-146) Through the speech from Sherburn, this reveals to Huck to truth about southern society. While “civilized” society is ruthless and discourteous to the niggers, they are unable to stand on their own opinion and exercise courage in the face of adversity. They create a mob in order to accomplish their motive. When people see an opportunity to take justice in their own hands, they never truly question the motive or reasoning behind their actions. Instead, they just take initiative without understanding the true story. Huck understands people are racist towards niggers because of mob

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