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Analysis ‘so vicious’ (Dubose)

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  • Judgmental
  • Bullying is pleasure/distraction
  • Feral language – lacking humane/empathetic qualities
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Analysis ‘CSA pistol’ (Dubose)

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  • Prejudiced, discriminatory
  • Inherent SOUTHERN ideology, cannot move past outdated notions of SLAVERY/SEGREGATION
  • Only alive because of black maid
  • Unafraid to harm, physical/emotional
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Analysis ‘you should be in a dress and camisole young lady!’ (Dubose)

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  • Contextual GENDER stereotypes, TOMBOY
  • Lack of opinion, aestheticism
  • HYPOCRISY, ladyship
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Analysis ‘family’s moral degeneration’ (Dubose)

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  • Atticus is very moral, irony
  • Societal pressure?
  • Attacks Atticus’ ideas of tradition/PARENTHOOD
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Analysis “like some viscous substance” “oppressive odour” (Dubose)

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  • Internal anger/dormant bitterness
  • DEPRESSION, poor quality housing
  • Reader understands bitterness?
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Analysis “cords of saliva” (Dubose)

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  • Morphine addiction
  • SOUTHERN LADY’S DRUG
  • Can only control mentality/words
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Analysis ‘I saw him fingering the petals’ (Dubose)

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  • Evergreen = ever-presence, dried-up fruit = inversion
  • Representative of Jem’s movement towards adulthood, BILDUNGSROMAN
  • Tenderness, reflective, evaluative stage
  • Symbol of humanity, passing bravery onto Jem, peaceful colour (reconciliatory?)
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Analysis “roots” (Dubose)

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  • Symbolises racism/prejudice, white flower = WHITE SUPREMACY
  • Represent the deep roots/ingrained ideology of racism in Southern States, COLONIALISM
  • Only kindness and compassion can uproot prejudice
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Analysis “free” “as mountain air” “nothing and no one” (Dubose)

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  • Takes her death for children to understand, too late
  • Climbing mountains, laborious but liberating to reach the top
  • New beginning in heaven, RELIGION, above everything physically/belief
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Analysis ‘real courage’ ‘courage is a man with a gun in his hand’ (Dubose)

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  • Childish courage and moral courage
  • Moral lesson, having clear conscience in the face of adversity
  • Enduring unnecessary pain, Trial, definitive ending, SCOTTSBORO CASE/EMMETT TILL
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Analysis “more than faint distaste” (Scout)

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  • Bright and articulate
  • Education confines instead of frees, AMERICAN DREAM
  • Reinforced uniformity extenuates WHITE SUPREMACY
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Analysis “it don’t matter who they are” (Scout)

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  • Other half of Scout’s education – morals
  • Importance of education to Cal, SEGREGATION, dividing factor
  • Children catalyse change, strong values important
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Analysis “them” (Scout)

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  • First Purchase (RELIGION), ignorance/naivety
  • White way is the correct way, COLONIALISATION
  • INGRAINED PREJUDICE
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Analysis “drown” “syrup” (Scout)

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  • Does not understand pressures of society/ confines of DEPRESSION
  • Children know no better, for adults prejudice is unforgiveable
  • BILDUNGSROMAN
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Analysis “neglected” (Scout)

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  • Miss Maudie
  • Women can defy CONTEXTUAL GENDER STEREOTYPE
  • Harper Lee as TOMBOY
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Analysis “Mrunas” “J Grimes Everett” (Scout)

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  • HYPOCRISY of ladyship, TRIAL + EMMETT TILL/SCOTTSBORO
  • Contrast with Aunt Alexandra showing strength despite adversity
  • Hateful aggression of KKK, LYNCHING
  • Outdated ideas of womanhood, CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
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Analysis “mockingbird” (Scout)

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  • Recognition of Boo, previously SOUTHERN GOTHIC Ghost
  • Speech is a method of empathy/experience
  • ALIENATION, compassionate when walking home (antithetic to earlier chapters)
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Analysis “Radley porch” “climbing” (Scout)

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  • Physical + metaphorical perspective shift
  • Difficulty
  • Education/Understanding vital in uprooting prejudice and segregation
  • Vessel of transition, from recalcitrance to tolerance
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Analysis “battles” “epic” “one sided” (Cal)

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  • Stern + strict but from love + concern

- Hyperbolisation by innocent mind, subvert WHITE SUPERIORITY

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Analysis “as wide as a bed slat” (Cal)

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  • Contrast with Atticus’ PARENTING

- Black woman, JIM CROW LAWS

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Analysis “Blackstone’s Commentaries” (Cal)

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  • One of most educated black people, determination, SEGREGATION in schools
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Analysis “education” (Cal)

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  • Teaches Jem + Scout the detriment of prejudice (Julius Caesar??)
  • Cycle of prejudice broken by educating children (BILDUNGSROMAN)
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Analysis “meanest man ever” (Cal)

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  • Recognises Boo’s pain SOUTHERN GOTHIC, injustice

- LYNCHING, SCOTTSBORO CASE/EMMETT TILL

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Analysis “lonesome” (Cal)

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  • Exclusion of Scout by Jem/Dill, TOMBOY
  • Recognises self?
  • Victim of prejudice, quick to sympathise
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Analysis “strange” “them” (Cal)

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  • Respectful and adaptable, changes with contexts
  • Scouts’ naïve ignorance
  • Two sides, white people’s expectations and reality? COLONIALISM
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Analysis “my” (Cal)

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  • Difficulty of removing prejudice

- Proud of her children, love, care

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Analysis “need” (Cal)

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  • Integral part
  • Prejudice/jealousy
  • Alexander’s son left her
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Analysis “lights” (Cal)

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  • Honesty, integrity, decency
  • Colour of skin doesn’t change values
  • In fact, esteemed more than many other white people
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Analysis “stop” (Cal)

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  • Strength of character/courage, Lula

- HYPOCRISY

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Analysis “no answer” “shouts” (Cal)

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  • Breaks societal boundaries
  • SOUTHERN GOTHIC HAUNTED HOUSE
  • Actions speak louder than words
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Analysis “usual disease” (Atticus)

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  • Prejudice, inherent ideology
  • SEGREGATION
  • Oppositional to tolerant maxim
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Analysis “white man always wins” (Atticus)

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  • COLONIALISM
  • Control of black people
  • Rabid, contrast to Bob
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Analysis “bargain” (Atticus)

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  • Contextually soft PARENTING style
  • Calpurnia employed, mother figure JIM CROW LAWS
  • Never has to hit children, lessons
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Analysis “don’t ever do anything that he don’t do in the yard” (Atticus)

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  • Contrast to Bob Ewell
  • Morally upright
  • Contrast with implied rape of Mayella/beating of Burris
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Analysis “crash hit them hardest” (Atticus)

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  • DEPRESSION of 1929
  • “WPA”, rural landowners
  • Compare with Cunninghams
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Analysis “square deal” (Atticus)

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  • Harper Lee’s FATHER, model
  • EMMETT TILL/SCOTTSBORO CASE
  • Injustice of trial, WHITE SUPREMACY
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Analysis “go on about my business” (Atticus)

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  • Doesn’t force societal confines onto Scout
  • TOMBOY/Harper Lee
  • HYPOCRISY/societal expectation
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Analysis “protect our frail ladies” (Atticus)

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  • Contextual GENDER stereotypes
  • Irony, “grinned”
  • Horrors of society also condoned by women
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Analysis “keep a jury out” (Atticus)

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  • Lynch mob
  • CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, publishing
  • KKK
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Analysis “senseless slaughter of songbirds” (Atticus)

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  • Mockingbird motif
  • BILDUNGSROMAN, rites of passage
  • AMERICAN DREAM
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Analysis “part company” (Jem)

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  • GENDER roles/expectations
  • TOMBOY, Harper Lee
  • Can still understand/love
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Analysis “difficult” (Jem)

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  • Jems challenge to her tolerance
  • Moral superiority
  • Scout frustrated not understanding, childish
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Analysis “like a Caterpillar in a cocoon” (Jem)

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  • Reflection of naivety
  • Symbolises change/transformation, BILDUNGSROMAN
  • Encapsulates inner change/façade
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Analysis “stab” (Jem)

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  • Painful loss of ignorance
  • Dangers of ignorance
  • Foreshadows Ewells death?
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Analysis “big cake” (Jem)

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  • Maudie consoles Jem, brutality of life
  • Symbolic of maturity, adulthood
  • Trial modelled on Lee’s childhood, FATHER
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Analysis “baby-step” (Jem)

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  • Ingrained racism of Southern society
  • Children drive change
  • Injustice of EMMETT TILL/SCOTTSBORO
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Analysis “fingering the white petals” (Jem)

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  • Reflective/evaluative stage of life
  • MORPHINE, misunderstanding
  • Prejudice, bravery
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Analysis “real courage” (Jem)

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  • Atticus’ PARENTING/role model
  • Incongruous to 1930s society (DEPRESSION?)
  • Remaining strong despite adversity
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Analysis “charity” “embrace” (Jem)

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  • Acceptance, tolerance of all life
  • Gentleness, SEGREGATION
  • CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, publishing
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Analysis “run Scout!” (Jem)

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  • Quickly catches on to the situation
  • Boo rescues, SOUTHERN GOTHIC
  • Mockingbird, welcoming of Dill, TRUMAN CAPOTE
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Analysis “yellow” “rotten” “jagged scar” (Boo)

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  • Centre of local folklore
  • Dehumanisation, lack of conformity
  • SEGREGATION in black and white communities
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Analysis “cold” “froze” (Boo)

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  • Threatening/destructive
  • Hyperbolises his character
  • Invisible, seen later
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Analysis “themselves” “unforgiveable” (Boo)

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  • CHURCH, self-placed withdrawal

- SOUTHERN GOTHIC haunted house, superstition

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Analysis “plug” “swell” (Boo)

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  • Loneliness of isolation, gifts
  • Affectionate/sensitive
  • Removed freedom, swelling foreshadows later appearance, AMERICAN DREAM
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Analysis “mockingbird” (Boo)

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  • Metaphor for good that exists in everyone
  • Childhood amusement -> fully human
  • Change in perspective, BILDUNGSROMAN
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Analysis “feathery” “delicate” (Boo)

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  • Lives life through Jem + Scout, hasn’t grown up

- Fragility of person, strength of heart

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Analysis “shy” “limelight” (Boo)

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  • Unwanting of associated attention of heroism
  • Treat with sensitivity not judgement
  • Injustice – EMMETT TILL/SCOTTSBORO
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Analysis “Grey Ghost” (Boo)

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  • Metaphor for Boo’s life
  • Joins the Finch family, Atticus’ lessons PARENTING
  • Children drive change, importance of EDUCATION
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Analysis “chameleon lady” (Maudie)

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  • Adaptable to environments, but firm morals
  • Any task, without masculine assistance
  • Challenges GENDER stereotypes
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Analysis “magisterial beauty” (Maudie)

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  • Strong but also beautiful, TOMBOY
  • Fair/lawful, teaches through compassion, like Atticus’ PARENTING
  • Outspoken about SEGREGATION
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Analysis “baptists” (Maudie)

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  • RELIGION, no time for HYPOCRISY

- Liberal character, no shame

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Analysis “friend” (Maudie)

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  • Critic of gossip
  • Crawford’s lack of humanity, Boo’s survival, SOUTHERN GOTHIC
  • Sharp wit, RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY
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Analysis “lively” “cordial” “whooped” (Maudie)

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  • Expecting devastation

- In contrast, remains positive despite DEPRESSION

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Analysis “azaleas” (Maudie)

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  • Joyful, hopeful, contentedness with life
  • Symbolic of fondness, feminine beauty, abundance of intelligence
  • PANTHEISM, uncommon
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Analysis “slice” “big cake” (Maudie)

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  • Jem’s rites of passage
  • Consolation of injustice, EMMETT TILL/SCOTTSBORO CASE
  • Complexities of adult life
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Analysis “baby-step” (Maudie)

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  • Lee’s FATHER

- Inspire change, CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

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Analysis “warmth” (Maudie)

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  • Reassuring bond

- Encouraging bravery in the face of adversity

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Analysis “cold” “icy” (Maudie)

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  • Vicious reaction to highly judgmental comments
  • Critical of narrow-mindedness
  • Challenging all forms of prejudice, vital BILDUNGSROMAN
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Analysis “clean-living” (Tom)

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  • Sensible, clean record, no sin, moral innocence
  • Metaphorical representation of social hierarchy through houses
  • DEPRESSION
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Analysis “licked” (Tom)

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  • Inherent ideology, imprisonment vital part of SOUTHERN GOTHIC
  • SEGREGATION/SLAVERY/NORTH
  • Courage, FATHER
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Analysis “stood up” “pointed” (Tom)

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  • Displaying, ringleader, commanding

- Physical WHITE SUPERIORITY

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Analysis “advantage” “yonder” “wanta” (Tom)

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  • HYPOCRISY of Mayella

- EDUCATION, dividing factor, compare to Ewells

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Analysis “no case” “secret courts of men’s hearts” (Tom)

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  • Stereotypical GENDER roles, hidden emotions, impromptu decisions
  • Dead, heart stops
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Analysis “white men’s chances” “free” (Tom)

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  • Desperation/suffocation, no other choice
  • AMERICAN DREAM
  • Only white men truly free, controlling fear
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Analysis “mockingbird” (Tom)

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  • Injustice, SCOTTSBORO CASE/EMMETT TILL
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Analysis “quiet, humble, respectable Negro” (Tom)

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  • Pure compassion/selflessness
  • MISSIONARY CIRCLE contrast
  • End focus, no remedy COLONIALISM
  • Theme of understanding
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Analysis “analogous to Mount Everest” (Alexandra)

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  • Lack of emotion
  • No familial recognition
  • OTHERNESS, Scout hasn’t met anyone like her/PREJUDICE
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Analysis “lady” (Alexandra)

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  • FEMALE GENDER stereotypes

- TOMBOY

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Analysis “sunbeam/sunshine” (Alexandra)

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  • Sun symbolises authority/nurture/male energy

- Contrast to DEPRESSION

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Analysis “like a hand into a glove” (Alexandra)

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  • Inherent ideologies, SEGREGATION, family built on SLAVERY/COLONIALISM
  • Lack of change “not into the world of Jem and me” BILDUNGSROMAN
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Analysis “arrange, advise, caution and warn” (Alexandra)

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  • Very dominant parenting style

- Contrast to Atticus’ atypical PARENTING

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Analysis “Streak” (Alexandra)

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  • PREJUDICE, ignorance

- Highlights importance of EDUCATION

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Analysis “soft-hearted” “easy man” (Alexandra)

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  • MALE GENDER stereotypes

- Morals mistaken as ease

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Analysis “tears him to pieces” (Alexandra)

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  • Injustice of EMMETT TILL/SCOTTSBORO CASE
  • FATHER, HYPOCRISY
  • Understanding, incongruous with previous stoicism
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Analysis “so could I” (Alexandra)

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  • Lesson of courage for Scout
  • BILDUNGSROMAN
  • Contrast strength in face of adversity with anger of KKK/LYNCHING
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Analysis “swapped at birth” (Alexandra)

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  • Childish fairytales (changeling)

- Comparison to Boo, SOUTHERN GOTHIC

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