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With My Respects to
"Cunningham Sr., and Jr." - A
Consideration of Mobs and Fear. - August 16 2017, An Essay by Kim Stickrath [Thread]
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Pondering the scene in
#ToKilIAMockingbird, where Scout diffuses a lynch mob. She sees their anger, fears for the lone man her father --
2) standing against
them, and gets between them. She
innocently reminds one of them, Mr.
Cunningham, that her father is in the
process of trying to help him, too.That Mr. Cunningham's son goes to her school, that they play and fight at recess, but that when the little boy was
3) hungry, she and her family had him over for lunch. That she had tried to protect the pride of Mr. Cunningham's child against the
unintentional shaming he endured because he was too poor to bring lunch to school.

The Cunninghams have little in the way of material things, but
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