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To kill a mockingbird (chapter 28)

AUTHOR'S PURPOSE: Why
does Lee write: "Haints,
Hot Steams, incantations,
secret signs, had vanished
with our years as mist with
sunrise" (Lee, 341)

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Haints, Hot Steams, incantations, secret signs, had vanished with our years as mist with sunrise. The discussion about the field between their house and the school foreshadows the not so “childish” fears which are no longer just imaginative but very real in the form of a murderously angry man carrying a knife.

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