Chapter XXI
Youthful eloquence • compositions by the young ladies • a lengthy vision • The boy's vengeance satisfied
SummarySummer is almost here and everybody is restless. Mr. Dobbins is handing out harsher punishments, to get ready for “Examination”, where the whole town comes to see a presentation of the school. These punishments make the school boys conspire against Mr. Dobbins.
During the examination students recited speeches and poems and took part in spelling and geography competitions. Tom also struggles through “Give me liberty or give me death,” but is crippled by stage fright, and many school girls then recite poems and essays that they have written. At the end of the event, Mr. Dobbins turns to the blackboard to draw a map of the United States for the geography class, and it is then that a blindfolded cat is lowered from the rafters by a string. The cat claws around at the air and yanks off Mr. Dobbins’s wig, revealing a bald head that the sign-painter’s boy previously gilded while Mr. Dobbins was sleeping. |
Who We Are |
Mr. Dobbins uses discipline and manipulation to change the children to look like something they're not. Because of this, he is punished for his actions by the rebellion of the schoolboys. This is another event that supports the theme nothing good comes from manipulation.
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Our History |
Did Mr. Dobbins deserve the humiliation from the children?
Why did Tom get stage fright when he has so much confidence every where else? |
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