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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  • Inherent SOUTHERN ideology, cannot move past outdated notions of SLAVERY/SEGREGATION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)
- 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)
- Difficulty of removing prejudice | - Proud of her children, love, care
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Analysis "need" (Cal)
- Integral part - Prejudice/jealousy - Alexander’s son left her
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Analysis “lights" (Cal)
- 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)
- Strength of character/courage, Lula | - HYPOCRISY
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Analysis “no answer" “shouts" (Cal)
- Breaks societal boundaries - SOUTHERN GOTHIC HAUNTED HOUSE - Actions speak louder than words
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Analysis "usual disease" (Atticus)
- Prejudice, inherent ideology - SEGREGATION - Oppositional to tolerant maxim
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Analysis "white man always wins" (Atticus)
- COLONIALISM - Control of black people - Rabid, contrast to Bob
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Analysis "bargain" (Atticus)
- 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)
- 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)
- DEPRESSION of 1929 - "WPA", rural landowners - Compare with Cunninghams
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Analysis "square deal" (Atticus)
- 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)
- Doesn't force societal confines onto Scout - TOMBOY/Harper Lee - HYPOCRISY/societal expectation
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Analysis "protect our frail ladies" (Atticus)
- Contextual GENDER stereotypes - Irony, "grinned" - Horrors of society also condoned by women
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Analysis "keep a jury out" (Atticus)
- Lynch mob - CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, publishing - KKK
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Analysis "senseless slaughter of songbirds" (Atticus)
- Mockingbird motif - BILDUNGSROMAN, rites of passage - AMERICAN DREAM
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Analysis "part company" (Jem)
- GENDER roles/expectations - TOMBOY, Harper Lee - Can still understand/love
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Analysis "difficult" (Jem)
- Jems challenge to her tolerance - Moral superiority - Scout frustrated not understanding, childish
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Analysis “like a Caterpillar in a cocoon" (Jem)
- Reflection of naivety - Symbolises change/transformation, BILDUNGSROMAN - Encapsulates inner change/façade
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Analysis "stab" (Jem)
- Painful loss of ignorance - Dangers of ignorance - Foreshadows Ewells death?
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Analysis "big cake" (Jem)
- 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)
- Ingrained racism of Southern society - Children drive change - Injustice of EMMETT TILL/SCOTTSBORO
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Analysis “fingering the white petals" (Jem)
- Reflective/evaluative stage of life - MORPHINE, misunderstanding - Prejudice, bravery
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Analysis "real courage" (Jem)
- Atticus' PARENTING/role model - Incongruous to 1930s society (DEPRESSION?) - Remaining strong despite adversity
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Analysis "charity" "embrace" (Jem)
- Acceptance, tolerance of all life - Gentleness, SEGREGATION - CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, publishing
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Analysis "run Scout!" (Jem)
- 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)
- Centre of local folklore - Dehumanisation, lack of conformity - SEGREGATION in black and white communities
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Analysis "cold" "froze" (Boo)
- Threatening/destructive - Hyperbolises his character - Invisible, seen later
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Analysis “themselves” “unforgiveable” (Boo)
- CHURCH, self-placed withdrawal | - SOUTHERN GOTHIC haunted house, superstition
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Analysis "plug" "swell" (Boo)
- Loneliness of isolation, gifts - Affectionate/sensitive - Removed freedom, swelling foreshadows later appearance, AMERICAN DREAM
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Analysis "mockingbird" (Boo)
- Metaphor for good that exists in everyone - Childhood amusement -> fully human - Change in perspective, BILDUNGSROMAN
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Analysis “feathery” “delicate” (Boo)
- Lives life through Jem + Scout, hasn’t grown up | - Fragility of person, strength of heart
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Analysis “shy” “limelight” (Boo)
- Unwanting of associated attention of heroism - Treat with sensitivity not judgement - Injustice – EMMETT TILL/SCOTTSBORO
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Analysis "Grey Ghost" (Boo)
- 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)
- Adaptable to environments, but firm morals - Any task, without masculine assistance - Challenges GENDER stereotypes
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Analysis "magisterial beauty" (Maudie)
- Strong but also beautiful, TOMBOY - Fair/lawful, teaches through compassion, like Atticus’ PARENTING - Outspoken about SEGREGATION
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Analysis "baptists" (Maudie)
- RELIGION, no time for HYPOCRISY | - Liberal character, no shame
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Analysis "friend" (Maudie)
- 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)
- Expecting devastation | - In contrast, remains positive despite DEPRESSION
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Analysis "azaleas" (Maudie)
- Joyful, hopeful, contentedness with life - Symbolic of fondness, feminine beauty, abundance of intelligence - PANTHEISM, uncommon
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Analysis "slice" "big cake" (Maudie)
- Jem’s rites of passage - Consolation of injustice, EMMETT TILL/SCOTTSBORO CASE - Complexities of adult life
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Analysis "baby-step" (Maudie)
- Lee’s FATHER | - Inspire change, CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
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Analysis "warmth" (Maudie)
- Reassuring bond | - Encouraging bravery in the face of adversity
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Analysis "cold" "icy" (Maudie)
- 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)
- Sensible, clean record, no sin, moral innocence - Metaphorical representation of social hierarchy through houses - DEPRESSION
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Analysis "licked" (Tom)
- Inherent ideology, imprisonment vital part of SOUTHERN GOTHIC - SEGREGATION/SLAVERY/NORTH - Courage, FATHER
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Analysis “stood up” “pointed” (Tom)
- Displaying, ringleader, commanding | - Physical WHITE SUPERIORITY
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Analysis "advantage" “yonder” “wanta” (Tom)
- HYPOCRISY of Mayella | - EDUCATION, dividing factor, compare to Ewells
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Analysis “no case” “secret courts of men’s hearts” (Tom)
- Stereotypical GENDER roles, hidden emotions, impromptu decisions - Dead, heart stops
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Analysis “white men’s chances” "free" (Tom)
- Desperation/suffocation, no other choice - AMERICAN DREAM - Only white men truly free, controlling fear
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Analysis "mockingbird" (Tom)
- Injustice, SCOTTSBORO CASE/EMMETT TILL
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Analysis “quiet, humble, respectable Negro” (Tom)
- Pure compassion/selflessness - MISSIONARY CIRCLE contrast - End focus, no remedy COLONIALISM - Theme of understanding
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Analysis "analogous to Mount Everest" (Alexandra)
- Lack of emotion - No familial recognition - OTHERNESS, Scout hasn’t met anyone like her/PREJUDICE
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Analysis "lady" (Alexandra)
- FEMALE GENDER stereotypes | - TOMBOY
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Analysis "sunbeam/sunshine" (Alexandra)
- Sun symbolises authority/nurture/male energy | - Contrast to DEPRESSION
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Analysis "like a hand into a glove" (Alexandra)
- 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)
- Very dominant parenting style | - Contrast to Atticus’ atypical PARENTING
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Analysis "Streak" (Alexandra)
- PREJUDICE, ignorance | - Highlights importance of EDUCATION
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Analysis "soft-hearted" "easy man" (Alexandra)
- MALE GENDER stereotypes | - Morals mistaken as ease
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Analysis "tears him to pieces" (Alexandra)
- Injustice of EMMETT TILL/SCOTTSBORO CASE - FATHER, HYPOCRISY - Understanding, incongruous with previous stoicism
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Analysis "so could I" (Alexandra)
- 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)
- Childish fairytales (changeling) | - Comparison to Boo, SOUTHERN GOTHIC

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