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1
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Cyclic structure

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When he was nearly 13, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.
He would be there all night and he would be there when Jem wakes up in the morning

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Town of the Deep South.

Nothing really changes, perhaps it will take a long time for attitudes to change

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Maycomb was an old town
Tired old town
Men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning
Ladies bathed before noon

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Atticus
Polite
Dual narrative
Reserved, decorous and constant in her life

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Courteous detachment

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Monosyllabic

Reflects punishments and pain Scout has experienced

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Her hand was as wide as a bed slat and twice as hard

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Dual narrative
Child Scout
Unfair

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Atticus always took her side

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Microcosm
Vivid description
She is always there for them

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Within calling distance of Calpurnia

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Sole paragraph, root of everything

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That was the summer Dill came to us

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Background
Heritage was important
Outsider, sees everything without being influenced

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Dill was from Meridian Mississippi

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Bird connotations
Mockingbird
Similar to Boo’s description

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His hair was snow White and stuck to his head like duck fluff

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Unusual lexical choice
Diminute, pocket sized playmate
Conjurer, extraordinary

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Pocket Merlin

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Connotations of ghost, supernatural

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Malevolent phantom

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Harsh consonants
Impolite
Short of prejudice

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Predilection unforgivable in Maycomb

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Childish
Irony
Source of excitement in lives

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Boo was six and a half feet tall
Dined on raw squirrels
His eyes popped and drooled

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Jem recognises that it’s not a bad thing to be afraid

Children are brave to show off

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Ain’t scared, just respectful

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15
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Ends with a positive impression of Walter

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He did have on a clean shirt and neatly mended overalls

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Local dialect reveals that different people have different expertise, cannot judge by class

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Began a discussion about crops neither a Jem and I could follow
But there’s another at the house that’s field size

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17
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Dialect

Expresses fury as she teaches about hospitality

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Anybody who sets foot in this house’s you’ compny

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18
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Dialect

Reflective of background and abusive father

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Snot nosed slut

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Metaphor

Empathy, moral education

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Until you climb into his skin and walk around in it

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20
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Direct speech

Class, education

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Our fathers, last will and testament diction

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21
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Personification

Secret

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Some tinfoil was… winking at me

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22
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Destined, lead role foreshadows his heroism

Admired by Scout

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Jem was a born hero

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23
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Asyndeton

Expresses how many roles Miss Maudie could be

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She was a widow, a chameleon lady who worked in an old straw hat and men’s overalls … reign over the porch in magisterial beauty

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24
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Use of full names

Welcomes them

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Jem Finch, Scout Finch, Charles Baker Harris

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25
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Metaphor

Putting the idea away

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Jem put the dolls in his trunk

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26
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Raises racial tension
Black, inferior, significant
Emphasises that everyone is the same underneath regardless of what you can see

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Nigger snowman

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27
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Teaches Scout like Atticus does

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Its not time to worry yet

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28
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Optimism in Miss Maudie’s tone

Stoic, brave

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Ill have more room for my azaleas

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29
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Chapter 10 starts with a direct command
Change of tone
Scout, pugnacious, childish, unafraid

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You can just take that back boy

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30
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Must be true to himself, moral teaching, integrity

Moral behavior must always be constant

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I couldn’t represent this county in the legislature, I couldn’t even tell you or Jem not to do something again

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31
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Declarative tone
Repetition of still, shows how trial will not change relationships
Respect your friends and keep them whilst doing the right thing.
Hard to fight enemies, even harder to fight friends

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No matter how bitter things get, they’re still our friends and this is still our home

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32
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Antithesis to Chapter 8
When there is a physical threat, all united
When there is a moral threat, all divided
Toxic part of a secluded town

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My folks said your daddy was a disgrace

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33
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Simile

Cold, harsh, unforgiving

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Analogous to Mount Everest, she was cold and there

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34
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Tone of dissaproval

Harsh, bitter criticism, does not know how to treat children

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Aunt Alexandra was fanatical on the subject of my attire

I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year

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35
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Metaphor

Connotations of infection, contagious, fatal, uncontrollable

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Catching Maycomb usual disease

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36
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Connotations of uselessness

Preceptivo irony

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Atticus was feeble

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37
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Mockingbird motif

They do not hurt anyone but get hurt for no reason

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Shoot all the blue jays you want, but it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird

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38
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Metaphor, point of no return, has been infected

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He reminded me of a car stuck in a sand bed

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39
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Embodies Maycomb disease

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Motivated by an invisible force that was inching him towards us

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40
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Jem realises his likeness to him

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Atticus is a gentleman, like me

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41
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Hyperbole

Expresses fear that Mrs Dubois arouses

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My father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars was the bravest man who ever lived

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42
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Echoes Atticus and his teachings

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Just hold your head high and be a gentleman

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43
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OKA Snow on the mountain
Cold attack on racism and hierarchy
Black stem, racism, upward struggle

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Camllia bush

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44
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Teaches Jem that bravery is also about fighting for what you believe is right despite the upward struggle

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She was the bravest person I knew

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45
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Mimetic of how Jem expects justice in a court, sweets in a sweet box

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Inside was a white, waxy, perfect camellia

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46
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Tone of pride
Takes pride in work
Uphold reputation
High standards 
Maternal figure
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I don’t want anybody saying that I don’t look after my children

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47
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Literal, he cannot distinguish colours

Metaphorical, B+W, no discrimination on colour

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Jem’ colour blind

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48
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Positive light
Worship has intrinsic worth
Blacks are hard working

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Called First Purchase because it was paid for from the first earnings of the freed slaves

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49
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Harsh consonants
Declarative tone
Won’t be dictated to
No one will treat them unfairly

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They’s my company

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50
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Respectful tone

Unusual, support from white member

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This church has no better friend that your daddy

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51
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Teaches courtesy
Divided in vernacular and dialect
Socially adept
Modest

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What if I talked white folk talk at church? They’d think I was puttin on airs to beat Moses

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52
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Triadic structure
Disapproval, death knell of plan
Exudes ownership

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Enamoured, upright, uncompromising, Aunt Alexandra was sitting in a rocking chair

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53
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Stereotyping

All of society in section

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Everybody in Maycomb had a Streak: a Drinking Streak, a Gambling Streak, a Mean Streak

54
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To Scout, what you do with your life is more important that what you are. Personality is more important
To Alex, fineness is expressed by time, wants a sense of superiority

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I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had but aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed that the longer a family had been squatting on a patch of land the finer it was

55
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Triadic structure

Tautology expresses femininity, achieve nothing

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Sipping, whispering, fanning

56
Q

Not proud of his heritage like Alex is

He does not want J+S to be like her

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I don’t want you to remember it. Forget it

57
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Imagery of a prison

Connotations of restriction and conformity

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Pink cotton penitentiary

58
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He broke the unspoken code of their childhood.

Betrayal

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Jem was standing in the corner of the room, looking like the traitor that he was

59
Q

Hyphens indicate everyday speech

Money cannot buy love

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I-got-you-that-book-go-read-it

60
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Hyperbole

Prefers a fantasy world as it makes him feel better

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He could add and subtract faster than lightening but he preferred his own twilight world

61
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Dangerous tone

Definite answer

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Do you really think so?

62
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Jem wants to defend Atticus
Atticus wants to defend Jem
Jem defies Atticus as he has been taught that he should do things to protect others

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Mutual defiance made them alike

63
Q

Applying Atticus’ lessons
Talk about interests
Doubt brings him back to his senses

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I go to school with Walter, He’s your boy ain’t he sir

64
Q

Invisible man, whites fighting over defenceless object

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A soft husky voice came from the darkness above: they gone

65
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Connotations of contamination

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But around here, once you have a drop of Negro blood, that makes you all black

66
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Foregrounds corruption in justice system

People believe that Tom is guilty

A

Yeah but Atticus aims to defend him

67
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Animalistic, proud

Attention seeking

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A little bantam cock of a man … strutted

68
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Redneck, hunter

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We saw that his face was as red as his neck

69
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We saw no resemblance to his namesake

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Not a leader

Robert E Lee Ewell

70
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Connotations of rubbish
Discarded by society
Below Negroes, hand me downs

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Maycomb Ewells lived behind the town garbage dump in what was once a Negro cabin

71
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Connotations of pests

They are one of them

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Varmints that feasted on Maycomb refuse

72
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Harsh consonants
Show danger, disarray
Not child friendly
Dystopian

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Shovels, axes and grubbing hoes, held on with pieces of barbed wire

73
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Glimmer of good

First sign of order, contrast

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Brilliant red geraniums

74
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Colours, gentle,

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Pale blue smoke rising… doorways glowing with amber

75
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Vivid

Antithesis, cosy orderly to scavengers

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Chicken, bacon frying crisp as the twilight air

Possum and rabbit

76
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Dialect
Coarse
Disrespectful

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I heard Mayella screaming like a stuck hog

77
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Derogative language

Animalistic

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I seen that black nigger yonder Rustin on my Mayella

78
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Does not recognise respect as she has never received it

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I don’t hafta take his sass, I ain’t called upon to take it

79
Q

An alien concept to her

Has never experienced friendship or love

A

Friends?

Love him, watcha mean?

80
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Parallel Jem

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His left arm was fully twelve inches shorter than his right

81
Q

Whites should be believed

Cowardly to run away from the ‘truth’

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If you fine fancy gentleman don’t wanta do nothing about it then you are all yellow stinking cowards

82
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Neighbourly, proud

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No ma’am there ain’t no charge

83
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Antithesis to Bob

Soft, gentle, modest

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Black velvet Negro, not shiny, but soft black velvet

84
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Direct command

Using her power as a white to control blacks

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Kiss me back nigger

85
Q

Repetition of tried
Men are rendered powerless under racism
Determination

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I tried, I tried to ‘thout bein’ ugly to to her

86
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Passionate, outraged
Voluntarily defends him
Values him
Persuasive from white man

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I ain’t had a speck of trouble outa him. Not a speck

87
Q

Italics show disbelief
Changes intonation
Heirachy undermined

A

You felt sorry for her, you felt sorry for her?

88
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Repetition of never

Emphasis that no one one will accept him

A

They could never never understand that I live like I do because that’s the way I want to live

89
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Learn to accept what is not morally right

Morals of acceptance

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Cry about the hell white people give coloured folks, without even stopping to think that they’re people too

90
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Triadic structure
Speak to the jury as equals
Informal

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Unbuttoned his vest, unbuttoned his collar, loosened his tie

91
Q

Italics, emphasise lies

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All Negroes lie, all Negroes are immoral beings, all Negoro men are not to be trusted around women

92
Q

Repetition of some

Don’t assume based on colour

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Some Negroes lie, some Negroes are women, some Negores are not to be trusted around women

93
Q

Appeals to universal truth and morality

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There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie

94
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Repetition

Separate stab to a Jem

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Guilty… guilty… guilty

95
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Imagery of lone hero and what he stands up for

Only one who believes in equality, conclusion of lonely fight

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Atticus’ lonely walk down the aisle

96
Q

Children see racist views, enough to see injustice

A

Seems that only children weep

97
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Simile of innocence

Naivety destroyed

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Its like being a caterpillar in a cocoon

98
Q

Getting closer to a world without racism

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Its just a baby step

99
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Well I’m going to be new kind of clown. I’m gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh of the folks

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Learns from Atticus and tries to make a difference

100
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Racism corrupts law

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People have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box

101
Q

Harsh consonants express harsh feelings

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That white man is trash

102
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Analogy

Class prejudice, not the same on the inside

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You can put him in shoes and a new suit but he will never be like Jem

103
Q

The only lipstick in the room was Tangee Natural. Cutex Natural sparkles on their nails

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Scout hates anything feminine but is fascinated by it

104
Q

Rhetorical question
In his house, eating his food
Stands for respect
Monosyllabic command

A

His food doesn’t stick going down does it

I’m sure you do

105
Q

Descriptive language
True brutality of racism
Excessive force

A

17 bullets holes in him, they didn’t have to shoot him that much

106
Q

Symbolism

View things with more sympathy and understanding

A

Aunt Alexandra sat down in Calpurnia’s chair

107
Q

First sign of vulnerability

Dignity and courage

A

Do I show it

108
Q

Measure of Scouts maturity behaving in a dignified way

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If Aunty could be a lady at a time like this, so could I

109
Q

Repetition of Typical
Tone of distain
Stereotype

A

Toms death was typical, typical of a nigger to cut and run. Typical of a niggers mentality to have no plan

110
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Metaphor
Disease has affected their hearts
No hope

A

In the secret courts of men, Tom had no case

111
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Childish fears vanish

Maturity

A

Haunts, hot steams, incantations, secret signs had vanashed with our years

112
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Pathetic fallacy

Premonition of danger

A

This was the stillness before a thunderstorm

113
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Sensual imagery

Senses heightened

A

Metal ripped

Scuffling, kicking, sounds, sounds of shoes and flesh

114
Q

Sibillance, sinister

A

I smelled stale whisky

115
Q

Mocking bird motif
Echoes malevolent phantom but kind
Lifeless

A

His hair was dead and thin, almost feathery on top of his head

116
Q

Similar to how Mr Radley paid Boo out of trouble

Upholds his moral beliefs always

A

His daddy paid a mint to get him out of that

117
Q

Repetition, shows how strongly he believes this

Justice to reverse injustice of Toms death

A

Let the dead bury the dead

118
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Mockingbird motif

Drawing attention to Arthur, would destroy him

A

Well it’d be sort of like shooting a mockingbird

119
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Soft consonants

Contains human warmth

A

A hand surprisingly warm

120
Q

Positive light

Ends with a sense of hope

A

Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them

121
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Future tense
Sense of hope
Atticus will be there hope
Darkness fades, morning will rise

A

He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning

122
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Tone of disapproval

One persons actions will reflect on the whole family

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Grandma says it’s bad enough he lets you all run wild, but now he’s turned out a nigger lover we’ll never be able to walk the streets if Maycomb again

123
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Strong antithesis
Alex, quality is a function of time
Scout, people get better through individual choice

A

Fine folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land, the finer it was

124
Q

Capital letters

Stereotyping Maycomb to emphasise the fineness of the Finches

A

No Crawford Minds His Own Business
Every Third Merriweather Is Morbid
All The Bufords Walk Like That

125
Q

Atticus’ inclusive characterisation
Alex’s exclusive characterisation
Judge people by birth or by life?

A

Alexandra, Calpurnias not leaving this house

126
Q

Shows extent that Alex will go to have the perfect family
Kicks out anyone unworthy of the Finch name
Tone of determination

A

If he were his double first cousin once removed, he would still not be received in this house

127
Q

Tone of worry

Shows her genuine worry for Atticus

A

He does not show it much but it tears him to pieces

128
Q

Maycomb had a fixed idea of family
Lack of acceptance of new ideas
Setting

A

They had so little sense of family that the whole tribe was one big family…J Grimes Everett was doing his utmost to change this state of affairs

129
Q

Tone of disapproval
Scout believes that if she acts like a boy, she can avoid the negatives of girls
Being a girl is about what you are born, not what you do

A

That girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them

130
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I declare to the Lord you’re gettin’ more like a girl everyday!
With that I had no option but to join them

A

Exclamatory tone

Jem lashes out at Scout’s logical argument, blaming her girlishness. Scout will do anything to not be called one

131
Q

Antithesis to opinions about femeninity have changed

Now, being a girl was about having positive traits instead of lacking them

A

(Calpurnia) seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl

132
Q

African Americans have a different set of fears

Gilmer suggests that he has nothing to fear if he has nothing to hide, fears founded

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No suh, scared I’d hafta face up to what I didn’t do

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