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To Kill a Mockingbird Allusions

To Kill a Mockingbird Allusions. By Samantha Sigsworth Jordan Dudgeon Maggie Christiansen. Pocket Merlin. “Thus we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies.”

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To Kill a Mockingbird Allusions

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  1. To Kill a Mockingbird Allusions By Samantha Sigsworth Jordan Dudgeon Maggie Christiansen

  2. Pocket Merlin • “Thus we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies.” • A pocket Merlin refers to the wizard from the legends of King Arthur. • Dill is like Merlin because while Merlin had a bunch of tricks up his sleeve, Dill has a bunch of stories in his mind.

  3. Pocket Merlin

  4. Hookworms • “Walter Cunningham’s face told everybody in the first grade he had hookworms. His absence of shoes told us how he got them.” • Hookworms are a parasitic nematode that live in the small intestine of a host and feed on the iron and blood in the host • If a person has hookworms it kind of tells you how poor the characters are since they can’t afford shoes

  5. Hookworm

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