![]() ![]() (16.3)īut why does Scout associate the two images? Perhaps they're both examples of Atticus doing tough things he doesn't want to do. The full meaning of the night's events hit me and I began crying. I was very tired, and was drifting into sleep when the memory of Atticus calmly folding his newspaper and pushing back his hat became Atticus standing in the middle of an empty waiting street, pushing up his glasses. But Scout's memory of her father shooting the dog does pop up more than once in situations involving Tom, and doesn't get mentioned otherwise.įor example, after Scout turns away the lynch mob, her memory of Atticus in front of the jail merges with her memory of him shooting the dog. Tim Johnson… Tom Robinson? Coincidence? Maybe. But more interestingly, it allows the dog's name to sound suspiciously like that of another character. Judge Taylor's pooch gets the same treatment. ![]() It may seem odd to give an animal the last name of the family it belongs to, but it's apparently common practice in Maycomb. Why? What did poor Tim the Dog ever do to get infected with rabies and be gunned down like, well, a dog?įor starters, there's his name. ![]() He was just snuffling along, investigating interesting smells, burying bones only to dig them up again, and looking out for lady dogs, when-bam-the symbolic structure of the book picks him up and decrees he has to die. (Click the symbolism infographic to download.) ![]()
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