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Okay Next question on the deep south passage here Well

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let's think about this The intended audience for the passage

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is most likely puma The author alludes to certain plot

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points of lee's novel like tom robinson's trial but she

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never gives the you know shmoop rundown of what it's

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all about and who the main characters are By omitting

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those details will the author is assuming that readers are

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already familiar with the work without having read to kill

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a mockingbird it might be hard to follow the overall

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argument So yes printout students give it back The passage

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mentioned certain sociological and historical events and being see there

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but only in order to connect them back to the

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novel and show their influence on leads not about those

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Likewise hollis randall's report is an important parallel but there's

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not enough information about her to satisfy hardcore randall fan

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So get rid of that one So the answer It's

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eat readers who are familiar with lee's work That's who

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The audiences

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