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Thank you We sneak in To kill a mockingbird the

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mad dog allow shmoop the dog's name is tim johnson

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Uh first of all he has a human name which

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you know already we're kind of like symbol And everyone

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in the book like their dogs are named kind of

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with human names on what happens with the mad dog

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is that he's basically mad running around and kind of

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the town is at risk their word that they're it's

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going teo scout er and or anyone else and atticus

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ships so one whoa because we have not seen atticus

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do anything but read a newspaper and say wise things

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and all of a sudden he picks up a shotgun

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and shoots this dog so it shows us a different

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a different side of atticus and works a symbol but

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because it reminds us that you know there is there

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isn't black and white it's not like atticus is a

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you know stoic read early type who has atticus knows

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how to scott He also is a symbol for tom

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robinson At the end of the book tom robinson gets

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shot those two characters in the book who get shot

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and so in that way you might say that the

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dog is a symbol for tom robinson You might also

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say that he's a symbol for racism because atticus just

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shoots him and he's like not going to deal with

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that So it's a fun Simple because you can really

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read into it whatever you want But you know when

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you see a mad dog with human name and gets

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shot in a completely out of character moment for and

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that's How you know it's a symbol Something is going

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on and it's kind of up to you as a

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reader Decide what what it is What is the mad

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dog A symbol for what does the symbol of the 00:01:48.116 --> [endTime] mad dog imply about black and white morality No

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