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* MeaningfulName: Atticus, Scout and Jem Finch. Like the mockingbird, the finch is a bird that sings sweetly and doesn't cause harm to anyone. [[spoiler: Bob Ewell commits the sin of trying to kill two ''Finches'' and pays for it.]]

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* MeaningfulName: Atticus, Scout and Jem Finch. Like the mockingbird, the finch is a bird that sings sweetly and doesn't cause harm to anyone. [[spoiler: Bob Ewell commits the sin of trying to kill two ''Finches'' and pays for it.]]See [[Fridge/ToKillAMockingbird Fridge Brilliance]].
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* MeaningfulName: Atticus, Scout and Jem Finch. Like the mockingbird, the finch is a bird that sings sweetly and doesn't cause harm to anyone. [[spoiler: Bob Ewell commits the sin of trying to kill two ''Finches'' and pays for it.]]

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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Arguably the reason why [[spoiler:Boo Radley began to leave gifts for the children and saved them]]. They didn't mock him or shun him, they merely took an interest in him, and it amused him and made him happy.

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Arguably the reason why [[spoiler:Boo Radley began to leave gifts for the children and saved them]]. They didn't mock him or shun him, they merely took an interest in him, and it amused him and made him happy.



* BewareTheNiceOnes: Miss Maudie may be a cheerful kind woman, but she's got a snarky streak. When gossipy Miss Stephanie claims she saw Boo Radley staring at her through her window, Miss Maudie icily asks if she moved over in the bed to make room for him.

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* BewareTheNiceOnes: BewareTheNiceOnes:
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Miss Maudie may be a cheerful kind woman, but she's got a snarky streak. When gossipy Miss Stephanie claims she saw Boo Radley staring at her through her window, Miss Maudie icily asks if she moved over in the bed to make room for him.



* GoshDangItToHeck: When Scout goes through her incessant swearing phase, no words above the caliber of "Hell" and "damn" are used. Justified because she's only a child, and most likely wouldn't be spouting out the f-word just yet.

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* GoshDangItToHeck: GoshDangItToHeck:
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When Scout goes through her incessant swearing phase, no words above the caliber of "Hell" and "damn" are used. Justified because she's only a child, and most likely wouldn't be spouting out the f-word just yet.



* TheGreatDepression: Followed by UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.

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* TheGreatDepression: Followed by UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.The book is set in 1930s rural Alabama.



** Atticus and his rifle.
** [[spoiler:Boo Radley.]]

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** Atticus and his rifle.
rifle, when he kills a rabid dog near his children.
** [[spoiler:Boo Radley.Radley, in saving Scout and Jem from Ewell.]]



* PickOnSomeoneYourOwnSize:
** Mrs. Dubose.
** [[spoiler:Bob Ewell attacking Scout]].

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* PickOnSomeoneYourOwnSize:
PickOnSomeoneYourOwnSize: [[spoiler:Bob Ewell attacking Scout and Jem, all because Atticus humiliated him.]]
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** Mrs. Dubose.
** [[spoiler:Bob Ewell attacking Scout]].



* PlayingDrunk: Dolphus Raymond pretends to be a drunk so he doesn't suffer backlash from the fact he's in love with a black girl (and fathered a mulatto).

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* PlayingDrunk: Dolphus Raymond pretends to be a drunk so he doesn't suffer backlash from the fact he's in love with a black girl (and fathered a mulatto).mulatto children that he openly claims).



* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Bigotry was, of course, common in this setting, but Bob Ewell would likely have been considered an extreme case even then and there. (In fact, portraying such a man as a villain was the whole point of the novel, which was written during the Civil Rights Era.)

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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Bigotry was, of course, common in this setting, but Bob Ewell would likely have been considered an extreme case even then and there. (In fact, portraying such a man as a villain was the whole point of the novel, which was set during TheGreatDepression but written during the Civil Rights Era.)

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