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tkamb race
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- 1'As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life ... There's nothing more sickening to me than a low grade white man who'll take advantage of a Negro's ignorance.'AF
- 2178- But around here, once you have a drop of Negro blood, you’re all black” - jemHigh modality heperbole
- 3she was white and she tempted a Negro, she did something that is in our society is unacceptable: she kissed a black manVisual imagery- white is purity, innocent colour symbolism,
Biblical allusion to bible- genesis, Adam and Eve (temptation, broke social laws)
Juxtaposition of black and white, good and evil
Synthax- colon emphasises
Assured, rational tone - 4No code mattered to her before she broke it, but it came crashing down on her afterwards”Social code vs Honour code
- 593-.. concluded that I had been sufficiently subdued and crooned softly. ‘ Nigger lover..’ - Francis (cousin)Auditory imagery- crooned has a condescending tone, white crooner singers such as Frank Sinatra or Bing Crosby has melodious connotations, thus meaning that she said it in a pleasant voice
Ironic of melodious connotations and hatred in words
Elipses after ‘Nigger lover’ reinforces weight of derogatory term, - 6-the evil assumption- that all lie, that all Negroes are basically immortal beings, that all Negro men are not to be trusted around our women, an assumption one associates with minds of their calibre.’Anaphora- “that all..”
Biblical allusions- 7 deadly sins
Use of italics in ‘all’
, high modality
Minds of their calibre ias a metaphor for the Uells, who live near trash etc.
Hyphens = emphasises assumptions, - 7Cry about the simple hell people give other people without even thinking. cry about the hell white people give coloured folks without even stopping to thick they’re people, tooThe second hell has no “simple” in it, as the second hell is specifically about the treatment White people give to Blacks as blacks aren’t thought of as people, they are thought of as animals
- 8Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom rOBINSON, BUT IN THE SECET COURTS OF MEN’S HEARTS Atticus hD NO CASE. Tom was a dead man as soon as Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamedMetaphor- heart symbolised feelings
High modality
Infatic statement- couldn’t be denied
Foreshadowing death
He would have been killed even if he was not found guilty - 9224- This case is as simple as black and white”Simile
Ironc
Observes people’s racial prejudice eo fthe time
colour juxtaposition, relates to white vs black at time
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