Mockingbird Context + Quotes Flashcards
(4 cards)
1
Q
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
A
The laws on racial segregation
2
Q
How was maycomb described as and what is it a metaphor for?
A
A ‘tired old town’ where people had ‘nowhere to go’
- metaphor for hopelessness of community and lack of advancement
3
Q
What is the symbol of the dog? And what quote can be used?
A
- is a motif for widespread racism
- by atticus shooting the dog, lee shows how atticus is determined to protect the community from the evils of racism
‘That dog is just as dangerous dead as alive’
4
Q
What is a Radley house a motif of?
A
Isolation and difference and segregation
