Tim Johnson… Tom Robinson? Coincidence? Maybe. But more interestingly, it allows the dog's name to sound suspiciously like that of another character. Judge Taylor's pooch gets the same treatment.
It may seem odd to give an animal the last name of the family it belongs to, but it's apparently common practice in Maycomb. Why? What did poor Tim the Dog ever do to get infected with rabies and be gunned down like, well, a dog?įor starters, there's his name. He was just snuffling along, investigating interesting smells, burying bones only to dig them up again, and looking out for lady dogs, when-bam-the symbolic structure of the book picks him up and decrees he has to die.
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