How does lee use details in this passage to present Miss Maudie’s view of Maycomb?

Miss Maudie believes that Maycomb society is the ‘safest’ place in the world. I get this from the quote ‘We’re the safest folks in the world’. I put the word ‘safe’ in bunny ears as I believe that she is not truthful and on honest in what she says. I believe that she thinks that Maycomb is an unfair society where only one group of individuals benefit, however there are members of the society that do the dirty work to even out the difference, people like Atticus. I get this from the quote ‘I SIMPLY want to say there are SOME MEN in this world who were born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them’

Exploring this sentence further the use of the word ‘simply’ suggest that there is no argument and that this might be miss Maudie true opinion. As well of this, because of my contextual knowledge, I can imply that the use of ‘some men’ can only refer to Atticus and men like Hate Tate and Judge Taylor. This is because miss Maudie has great respect for these men as they are ‘good Christians’ (Christians not in the religious sense but doing the right thing no matter what)


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2 responses to “How does lee use details in this passage to present Miss Maudie’s view of Maycomb?”

  1. jnorth Avatar
    jnorth

    Blert,

    I can see that you are attempting to explore the possible sarcasm in Miss Maudie’s dialogue. I would like you to work on being more formal in your analysis here, avoiding phrases such as ‘do the dirty work to even out the difference’…

    Let me know if you would like a hand with this,

    Mr North

  2. jnorth Avatar
    jnorth

    Blert,

    I like your second paragraph – it shows clear analysis of language.

    Be careful not to confuse imply with infer.

React!