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186 Cards in this Set
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"I'm reading the paper" |
Jem becoming like Atticus |
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"Can't anybody take a bath in this house without the whole family looking?" |
confirms Jem reaching puberty |
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"Jem's color blind" |
metaphor of non racisim |
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"It was a happy cemetery" |
oxymoron
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"...in tones I had never heard her use" |
Calpurnia's camilian language |
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"she was talking like the rest of them" |
Calpurnia's Camilian Langauge |
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"stop right there" |
Calpurnia's mothering instinct |
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"It's the same God, ain't it?" |
God is colorblind |
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"Let's go home, Cal, they don't want us here" |
reversed discrimination |
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"We are mighty glad to have you all" |
church congregation as colorblind |
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"He's a good character" |
Tom as a religious person |
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"A black enameled coffee can" |
giving to God has no rules |
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"old Mr Bob Ewell accused him of raping his girl" |
Tom's accused crime |
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"Cal can I come and see you sometimes?" |
Scout's developing maturity |
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"the summer is going to be a hot one" |
foreshadows hell to come with the trial |
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"fine folks were people who did the best with the sense that they had" |
Scout's view of true character |
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"that makes the Ewell's fine folks then" |
Transitive theory of Aunt Alexandra's philosophy |
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"standing stiff as a stork" |
alliteration |
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"I don't exactly know how to say this...just say it" |
role exchange |
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"Atticus crossed his knees and folded his arms" |
Atticus tied up |
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"Stop that noise" |
Atticus's anxiety of being out of character |
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"he nearly slammed it but closed it softly" |
metaphorical juxtaposing |
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"you better take some soda" |
role exchange |
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"Aunt Alexandra was sitting in the corner" |
AA symbolically trapped by Racisim |
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"you do as AA tells you" |
order reveals Calpurnia's mothering role |
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"i felt the starched wall of a pink cotton tent closing in on me" |
Scout's metaphor for becoming a lady |
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"they have not suffered a bit from her having brought them up" |
Calpurnia is their mother |
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"The children love her" |
Colorblind kids |
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"try not to antagonise Aunty" |
Jem's developing maturity |
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"You antagonize Aunty and I'll spank you" |
Jem assuming parenting role |
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"behind the town dump" |
Ewell's metaphorically worse than trash |
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"he was being sent to bed at my bedtime" |
scout's moral victory |
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"a phrase that united us again" |
the children teaming up against AA |
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"You ought to let your mother know where you are" |
Jems developing maturity |
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"Then he rose and broke the remaining code of our childhood" |
foreshadows Jem's resurrection from childhood |
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"and for goodness sake, put some of the country back where it belongs" |
Atticus humor |
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"Jem was standing in the corner of the room" |
Jem symbolically trapped by maturity |
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"You can't run 300 miles off without your mother knowing" |
Foreshadows a dill resurection |
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"He thought he had to...don't stay mad at him" |
Scout's unconditional love |
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"But they didn't want me with 'em" |
Dill's feelings of parental rejection |
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"that's not it" |
Dill feeling unloved |
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"I found myself wondering what life would be like if Jem were different" |
P.A.W. |
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"they needed me" |
A basic human desire |
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"maybe he doesn't have anywere to run off to" |
TT: Finch's need Dill |
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"a nightmare was upon us" |
foreshadows a difficult time to come |
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"Jem turned out the living room lights" |
symbolically reveals children in the dark about these events |
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"that old Sarum bunch" |
symbollically represents old values |
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""You're not scared of that crowd, are you?" |
Adult peer pressure |
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"They don't usually drink on Sunday, they go to Church" |
situational irony / christian hypocracy |
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"when Atticus switched on the overhead light" |
symbolcially represents the illumination for children with new info |
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"except for the vivid mark of the screen on his nose": |
jem symbollicaly scared by racisim |
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"no son, those were our friends" |
atticus unconitional love |
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"Sam made 'em so ashamed of themselves, they went away" |
foreshadows Scout shaming Walter Cunningham Sr. |
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"Scout...I'm scared" |
Jem's truth |
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"I didn't think it would be nice to bother him" |
Scout's developing maturity |
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"A long black electric chord...with a lightbulb at the end" |
Symbolically represents hope at the end of a long battle against racisim |
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Otuerwise that side of the courthouse was dark |
Juxtaposition of toilet justice vs. Legal justice |
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Dim lights burned from deep within |
Symbolically represents those who won't stand against racisim |
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Eccelestical windows |
Symbolically represents god's need to escape Maycomb |
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The south side of the square was desserted |
Symbolically reveals people as trapped by the cold of racism |
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I've just got this feeling |
Jem's developing maturity |
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There was no moon tonight |
Foreshadows evil |
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We saw a solitary light burn in in the distance |
Atticus symbolizing hope for the future |
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The jail doesn't have an outside light" |
Foreshadows no hope for justice |
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Shadoes became substance |
Racism metaphorically takes action |
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The men hid him from view |
Metaphorically reveals that evil can hide good |
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The men talked in near whispers. |
-respect for Atticus -lack of commitment for their cause |
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Dark smelly bodies |
Symbol of racial hatred |
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Burst into the circle of light |
Scout's symbolic moment of illumination to racial hatred |
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A flash of plain fear |
Represents the fathering instinct |
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There was the smell of whisky |
Whisky courage |
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Grabbed Jem roughly by the collar |
Metaphorically violent conflict of good vs evil |
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Ain't nobody gonna do Jem that way |
Role exchange |
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"They must be cold natured" |
foreshadows cold hearts |
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"some wore hats pulled firmly down over their ears" |
metaphorical denial of Truth |
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"Hey, Mr. Cunningham" |
Transitive Theory: Scout saves Tom Robinson |
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"..and the top half of his face was white, in contrast to his sun scorched face" |
symbolically two faced |
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"clad in heavy work boots" |
symbolic of heavy hatred |
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"we brought him home for dinner one time" |
Scout's most powerful emotional argument |
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"Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they are interested in" |
PAW |
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"As they passed under a streetlight Atticus reached out and massaged Jem's hair" |
light exposes symbolic acceptance into manhood |
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"He squatted down" |
metaphor of Walter Cunningham becoming childlike for truth |
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"Then he straightened up" |
Symbolic Walter Cunningham ressurection |
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"let's get goin' boys" |
proof of Walter Cunningham's symbolic ressurection |
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"switched off the light above the jail door" |
foreshadows darkness for Tom Robinson |
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"why thankyou son" |
connotation accepts Dill as family |
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"Dill and I fell into step behind Atticus and Jem" |
Dill and Scout metaphorically want to be like ATticus and Jem |
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"DIll was encumbered by a chair" |
symbolic of Dill's life baggage |
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"So as not to wake Aunty" |
metpahor of not reawakening racial hatred |
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"the full meaning of the night's events hit me, and I began crying" |
Scout's developing maturity |
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"Jem was really nice about it" |
Jem's developing maturity |
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"She knows what she means to this family" |
Calpurnia accepted as family |
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"If we didn't give them so much to talk about they would stop talking" |
whites need to be better people |
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"He still is" |
Atticus's unconditional amor |
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"Mr Cunningham was part of a mob last night" |
Mob Mentality |
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"you children made WC stand in my shoes" |
PAW |
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"Miss Emily dipped snuff in private" |
slice of small town life |
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"It's like a Roman Carnival" |
citizens want to see Tom die |
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"You'd think William Jennings Brian was speaking..." |
historical foreshadowing |
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"In the far corner of the square, the Negroes sat quietly in the sun" |
good people symbolically trapped by racism |
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"They don't mind them up North" |
Symbolic leadership for human rights |
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"Yeah, but Atticus aims to defend him. That's what I don't like about it" |
verbal irony |
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"There's not a seat downstairs" |
Symbolic no room in hell for Finch children |
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"Gosh, yes" |
Jem becoming like Atticius |
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"Reverend Sykes edged his way upstairs" |
Black people symbolically heavenly people |
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"And from it we could see everything" |
metaphorically seeing truth |
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"They seemed to be all farmeres" |
Tom's Jury |
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"Did anybody call a doctor?" |
Atticus first question/would have established a crime |
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"It was her right eye" |
Key testimony for the defence |
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"Mr. Tate blinked again" |
Heck Tate's symbolic moment of illumination to new ideas |
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"Tom Robinson raised his head" |
foreshadows a Resurrection for Tom |
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"Robert E Lee Ewell" |
Historical Foreshadowing |
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"the varmits had a lean time of it" |
TT: Ewells are varmits |
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"Rose and strutted to the stand" |
foreshdadows Bob Ewells ressurction |
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"the back of his neck reddening" |
Bob Ewell as a symbolic red neck |
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"In what was once a negroe cabin" |
Ewell's symbolically lower than Blacks in Cast System |
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"They were always several dirty faced ones at the windows" |
symbol of escape for Ewell children |
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"most people turned around in the Negroes front yards" |
no respect for Negroe familys |
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"their cabins looked neat and snug with pale blue smoke raining from the Chimneys" |
Juxtaposition of Ewell to Black home life |
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"Aromas that vanished when we rode back past the Ewell Residence" |
Blacks cook/ Ewells glean |
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"If scrubbed with Lye soap in hot water, his skin was white" |
ewell's symbolic trump card |
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"Frog sticken without a light" |
slice of life |
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"You're left handed Mr. Ewell" |
key testimony for the defence |
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"Jem was counting his chickens before they hatched" |
slice of life/foreshadow |
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"she's got enough sense to get the judge sorry for her" |
playing the female card |
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"she had twisted her handkerchief into a twisted rope" |
symbolic of twisted lies leading to lynch rope |
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"He chucked me on the floor 'n' choked me and took advantage" |
Tom's crime according to Mayella |
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"Who done it, who done it? |
hole in Mayella's testimony |
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"Mr. Gilmore wiped his head with his hand" |
Symbolic hell of lies |
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"Mayella looked from under lowered eyelids" |
symbolically confirms Mayella's half truth |
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"What on earth was her life like?" |
PAW |
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"he sat straight up and waited for her to answer" |
Bob Ewell using male card |
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"except when...nothing" |
male card works |
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"Atticus's glasses had slipped a little" |
foreshadows the truth as being blurred |
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"let her cry if she wants to: |
foreshadows the truth as being blurred |
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"let her cry if she wants to" |
atticus stopping use of the male card |
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"he rose to his feet" |
foreshadows a TomRob ressurection |
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"his left arm was crippled" |
key evidence for the defence |
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"from as far away as the balcony, I could see it was of no use" |
Scout metaphorically seeing truth from balcony" |
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"wipe her face" |
symbolic facade |
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"turned his good right eye to the witness" |
symbol of atticus seeking clear truth |
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"the crime of rape, or the best defense to it?" |
mayella caught showing affection to Tom |
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"then she burst into real tears" |
crying about life circumstance |
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"Mr. Gilmer seemed to be prosecuting..reluctantly" |
Gilmer knows of Tom's innocence |
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"I works pretty steady for him all year long." |
tom as a responsible employee |
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"Tom Robinson was probably the only person ever to be decent to her" |
situational irony |
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"Tom denied it 3 times" |
foreshadows ressurection |
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"Miss Mayella were on the porch like she said" |
confirms mayella's half truth |
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"they all gone to town" |
confirms premeditated plan |
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"you think so?" |
key communication motivates mayella's plan |
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"the afternoon sun had left the windows" |
foreshadows a symbolic sunset for Tom for telling the truth |
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"she says what her papa do to her don't count" |
reveals incest and abuse in the Ewell fmaily |
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"TomROb shut his eyes twice" |
symbolically blocking out the truth |
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"you whore, I'll kill you!" |
Bob Ewell knows of Mayella's guilt |
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"TomRob's manners are as good as Atticus'" |
tt: tom is atticus |
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"judge taylor's gabel came down...the overhead lights went on in the courtroom" |
symbolic moment of illumination: tomrob tells the truth |
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"that's right smart of you to treat 'em" |
key miscommunication |
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"I just want yall to know sumthin right now" |
linkdees as symbolic bright light |
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"he beat me" |
tomrob as humble guy |
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"I felt right sorry for her" |
racism is the trump card |
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"Mr Gilmer seemed ready to rise to the ceiling: |
?? |
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"below us nobody liked TomRob's answer" |
symbolic hell does not like the truth |
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"I say she's mistaken in her lies" |
??? |
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"a big buck like you" |
Gilmer dehumanizing Tom |
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"scared I'd have to face up to what I didn't do" |
racial injustice |
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"Dill had started crying" |
Dill's first exposure to injustice |
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"Mr. Linkdees was a lonely figure on the top step" |
stnading up for truth is lonely |
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"it just makes me sick" |
dill symbolically exposed to Maycomb's disease |
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"he peered around the trunk" |
Dolphus Raymond symbolically rooted in wisdom |
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"he had been lying on the grass" |
Dolphus Raymond symbolic fertile life |
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"they could never understand I live like I do because that's the way I want to live" |
DolphRay as independent thinker |
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"he wore the only english riding boots I ever seen" |
DolphRay as an unique character |
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"who deliberately perpetrated fraud against himself" |
DolphRay must live a lie to live his truth" |
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"Because you're children" |
symbolically uncontaminated |
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"get a little older and he won't get sick and cry" |
becoming desensitized to racisim |
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"but all you gotta do is step back inside the courthouse" |
verbal irony: place of injustice |
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"I looked at the sun and it was dropping fast" |
foreshadows symbolic sunset for Tom |
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truth is always simple and consistent |
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"this was the equivalent of him stark naked" |
atticus symbolically seeking the naked truth |
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"this case is as simple as black and white" |
meaning on two levels: easy truth/racial case |
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"she is white" |
Mayellla's trump card |
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"she temped a Negroe" |
Mayella's only "crime" |
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a quiet respectable humble negroe who had the unmitigated temerity to feel sorry for a white woman" |
tom's only "crime" |
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"that institution, gentlemen, is the court" |
the court as the great equalizer of men |
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"In the name of God, do your duty" |
Atticus legal plea to the jury |
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"in the name of God, believe him" |
Atticus personal plea |
