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165 Cards in this Set
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Classic |
A "work" that transcends all boundaries of time & space. |
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"Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow" |
key event motivating allusion |
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"I maintain that the Ewlells started is all" |
Scout's reason for broken arm |
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"He said it began the summer Dill came to us" |
Jem's reason for broken arm |
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"tired old town" |
personification |
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"The courthouse sagged in the square" |
foreshadows people trapped by injustice |
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"hoover carts" |
slice of life |
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"It had nothing to fear but fear itself" |
Maycomb as Utopia |
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"died from a sudden heart attack" |
how their mother died |
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"car house" |
slice of life |
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"three doors to the south" |
foreshadows a Radley ressurection |
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"that was the summer Dill came to us" |
allusion begins |
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"I can read" |
slice of life |
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"...drew him no nearer than the light pole on the corner" |
Dill symbolically cornered in searching for Radley truth |
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"At last the sawhorses were taken down" |
old Mr. Radley dies |
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"Let's try to make him come out" |
point of attack |
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"Jem thought about it for three days" |
foreshadows ressurection |
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"this was enough to make Jem march to the corner" |
Jem symbolically trapped by pride |
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"You're gonna run out on a dare?" |
peer pressure |
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"we left the corner" |
foreshadows Jem will complete the dare |
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"I am from North Alabama" |
foreshadows cold feelings |
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"Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me anymore" |
situationall irony |
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"started out the window" |
symbolic need for escape |
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"Calpurnia was to blame for this" |
people's blaming attitudes |
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"Walter shook his head a third time" |
foreshadows Walter's ressurection |
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"He's a Cunningham" |
Scout stereotyping Walter |
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"A sack of Hickory nuts appeared on the back step" |
Cunningham barter |
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"stood stock still" |
alliteration |
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"Then told me to stand in the corner" |
symbolically trapped by the south |
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"A storm of laughter errupted from the class" |
metaphor of storm |
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"I saw her sink down into the chair and bury her head in her arms" |
Miss Caroline's symbolic death |
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"Come on home to dinner with us" |
Walter's symbolic ressurection |
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"Walter had forgot he was a Cunningham" |
Walter's symbolic moment of acceptance |
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"There's another at the house full size" |
slice of life |
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"He and Atticus talked together like two men" |
Walter as a precocious child |
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"We couldn't operate a single day without her" |
situational irony |
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"horrid fascination" |
oxymoron |
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"You ain't makin' me go nowwhere" |
verbal irony ironic truth |
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"Pocket rifle" |
slice of life |
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"Atticus sat down in the swing" |
symbolic moment of indecision |
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"You never really understand a person until you climb into his skin and walk around" |
metaphor of life truth |
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"As i open the front screen door" |
Finch's symbolic filter |
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"their roots reached out into the side door and made it bumpy" |
metaphor for Radley's making life "bumpy" in Maycomb |
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"Winking at me in the afternoon sun" |
personification |
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"Wriggley's doublemint" |
first tree gift |
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"two scrubbed and polished penny's" |
second tree gift |
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"Indian Heads" |
gifts of value |
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"Plucking an ocaisonal camilla...hot milk....helping ourselves to someone's scupperknogs..." |
selective morality |
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"We will kep them till school starts" |
Jem compromising his conscience |
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"I'll knock you bowl-legged" |
Scout as a Tomboy |
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"A hot steam's somebody who can't get to heaven" |
Purgatory |
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"Atticus didn't say we couldn't" |
truthful lying |
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"Someone inside the house was laughing" |
Scout's secret |
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"He would simply change the names of the characters" |
truthful lying |
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I beat him up twice but it did no good" |
Scout as a Tomboy |
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"A chameleon lady" |
Miss Maudie blends in |
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"she was rocking slowly in her big oak chair" |
Miss Maudie debating if Mr Radley is dead or not |
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"Old Mr. Radley was a footwashing baptist" |
old Mr. Radley = conservative Christian |
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"foot-washers beleive anything that's pleasure is a sin" |
Radley philosophy |
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"they thought I spent too much time in God's out door and not enough time with the Bible" |
situational irony
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"We wer'nt laughing at him..we were just..." |
Jem admiting to playing Radley game
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"Jem finally realized he had been done in by the oldest trick in the book..." |
Atticus tricks Jem into an admission |
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"Jem whistled Bob White" |
slice of life |
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"A gigantic moon was rising" |
foreshadows shedding light on Boo |
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"He was constructing a ciggarette from newspaper" |
children are impressisonable |
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"Why spy on Boo tonight?" |
1. No one can see in the dark 2. Atticus is reading 3. If they die, they miss school not summer 4. Easier to see in a dark house in the dark/night |
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"A ramshackel porch ran the width of the house" |
symbolic broken down Radley family |
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"regained balance and dropped to his knees" |
Jem metaphorically captured in search for Radley truth |
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"there was no wind blowing" |
foreshadows lack of evil |
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"and tree trunks never walked" |
an allusion to Macbeth |
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"bathed in the moonlight" |
personification |
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"crisp as Toast" |
similie |
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"in the glare of the streetlamp" |
symbolic illumination for Dill |
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"a lickin' hurts but it doesn't last" |
life truth |
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"Atticus ain't ever whipped me, I want to keep it that way" |
Jem's cause |
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"we shouldn't have done that tonight" |
Jem's developing maturity |
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"Latched the door behind him" |
Jem metaphorically locking his secret out |
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"I tried to climb in his skin and walk around in it" |
practical use of Atticus's advice |
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"A ball of gray twine" |
tree gift |
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"folded across the fence...sewn up" |
Jem's secret |
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"I pulled out two small images carved in soap" |
tree gifts |
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"these are us" |
children have secret admirir |
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"Jem stared at me so long I asked him what was the matter" |
Jem knows the gift giver |
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"tarnished medal" |
tree gift |
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"a pocket watch..an aluminum knife" |
tree gift |
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"someone had filled up our knothole with cement" |
metaphorically blocking communincation |
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"the tree is dying" |
metaphor of the Radley family dying |
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"when we passed our tree, he gave it a meditative pat" |
jem's closure |
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"He stood there until nihgtfall" |
Jem metaphorically in the dark about the Radley's |
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"I saw he had been crying" |
Jem developing maturity |
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"we had two weeks of the coldest weather since 1885" |
foreshadows cold feelings to come |
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"I havn't the slightest idea" |
atticus' honest character |
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"I followed in his tracks" |
scout metaphorically wanting to be like Jem |
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"Hasn't snowed in Maycomb since Aparamatus" |
allusion |
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"when we had five baskets of dirt and three baskets of snow, Jem was ready to begin" |
Jem as a problem solver |
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"he won't be black long" |
metaphorical message of better to be white than black in the south |
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"Jim dandy job" |
slice of life |
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"Atticus said we were in for it" |
foreshadows hard times for the family |
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"It ain't time to worry yet" |
foreshadows a time to worry later |
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"I watched our absolute morpodite go black and crumble" |
metaphorical message: black in 30's south is hard |
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"then who's blanket is that?" |
Boo cares for the children |
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"It looks like all of Maycomb was out tonight" |
confirms Boo Radely's involvment with the kids |
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"someday maybe Scout will thank him for covering her up" |
foreshadows a possible Boo/Scout reunion |
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"i always wanted a smaller house...give's me more yard" |
miss maudie's fixable attitude |
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"of course I do" |
Atticus as a moral character |
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"He lives in that little settlement beyond the town dump" |
metaphor of being better than trash |
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"she says they're clean livin' folks" |
ironic juxtaposition to the Ewells |
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"I couldn't even tell you or Jem not to do something anymore" |
atticus as a good role model |
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"You just hold your head high and keep your fists down" |
life truth: violence does not change beleifs |
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"simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason not to try to win" |
defeating Racism is a never ending battle |
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"this time we arn't fighting the Yankees" |
allsuion |
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they are still our friends" |
unconditional love of Atticus |
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"My folks said" |
racism is a learned behavior |
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"dropped my fists and walked away" |
practical application of Atticus's wisdom |
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"somehow if I fought Ceasel I would let Atticus down" |
Scout is developing maturity |
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"Please sir, just let it go" |
Scout's developing maturity |
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"Alexandria should know about this" |
Verbal irony |
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"wait till I get my hands on that boy" |
role exchange |
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"I knew of no hand.." |
Uncle Jack's admiration of Scout |
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"well I don't" said Uncle Jack" |
role model's are parents too |
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"he didn't mind me much the way I was" |
Atticus's unconditional love |
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"like grandma says" |
racism is a learned behavior |
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"she won't let met out" |
metaphorically trapped by racism |
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"this time I split my kunckle to the bone of his front teeth: |
metaphorically taking action against injustice |
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"looking at a tiny ant struggling with a crumb" |
metaphor of those who fight injustice having a tough battle |
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"you're a generation off...the present one's are the same though" |
cycle of failure |
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"I intend to jar the jury" |
Atticus' moral victory |
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"without catching Maycomb's usual disease" |
metaphor of racism |
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"it's a sin to kill a mockingbird" |
novel title/life truth |
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"make someone's will airtight...best checker player.." |
Atticus's talents |
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"hush Heck, let's go back to town" |
Atticus as a humble character |
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"He never said anything about that" |
Atticus as a humble character |
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"he put his gun down when he realized that God had given him an unfair advantage" |
Atticus as a person of conscious |
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"people in their right minds never take pride in their talents" |
life truth |
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"Don't say anything about it, Scout" |
Jem developing maturity |
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"Atticus is a gentleman, just like me." |
Jem is becoming like Atticus |
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"Just hold your head high and be a gentleman" |
life truth |
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"Steep front steps" |
foreshadows difficult times for Mrs Dubose |
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"the OK Cafe was a dim orginization on the North side of the square" |
Scout symbollically trapped in a cold career death |
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"But this was the first one coming from an adult" |
adult disapointment |
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"the shadows were cool...but the sun was warm" |
symbolic juxtaposition of adult disapointment and childhood joys |
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"he sat by the windows hunched down in a rocking chair" |
foreshadows Jem's trouble in punishment |
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"his voice was like the winter wind" |
similie |
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"atticus switched on the ceiling light" |
Jem's truth symbolically exposed |
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"It's filthy yellow tassel" |
symbolic cowardice |
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"the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down is how our personal character is evaluated"
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"I couldn't go to church and worship God if I didn't try to help that man" |
Atticus avoiding Christian hypocracy |
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"before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself" |
unknown |
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"the on ething that doesn't abide by majority rules is your conscience" |
life truth |
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"Jem seemed fascinated by a rose on the carpet" |
symbolic of Mrs. Dubose |
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"Jem planted his big toe in the center of the Rose on the carpet" |
Jem metaphorically crushing Mrs. Dubose |
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"but inside it's all dark and creepy" |
symbolic of Mrs/ Dubose's life baggage |
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"the alarm clock had ceased sounding" |
Mrs. Dubose defeats morphine addiction |
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"You'll pull it up by the roots" |
metaphorically attack racism at it's roots |
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"that spring was a good one" |
symbolically confirms Mrs. Dubose's rebirth and ressurection from morphine |
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"The Doctor put her on it" |
situational irony |
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"there's still on emore thing out of order" |
Mrs Dubose's cause |
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"Did she die free...as the mountain air?" |
confirms Mrs Dubose beat morphine |
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"It was a snow on the mountain" |
Mrs Dubose's peace offering |
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"She was a great lady"
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symbolic rose
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"After all those things she said about you, a lady?" |
Metaphorical thorns on the rose |
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"it's when you knew you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway" |
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"she was the bravest person I ever knew" |
Mrs. Dubose as a symbolic rose |
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"Jem picked up the box and threw it in the fire" |
Jem metaphorically burning Mrs Dubose's coffin to set her free
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unkonwn |
Jem accepts Mrs Dubose's peace offering |
