Literary Note
“You gotta make me first!’ he yelled. ‘My folks said your daddy was a disgrace an’ that nigger oughta hang from the water-tank!”
This is one of the comments that thoroughly enrages Scout and is a very obvious example of the problem of racism which the book looks at. ‘Oughta hang from the water-tank’ is also another example of how Harper Lee uses foreshadowing; here she is alluding to later encounters with a lynch mob.
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