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mrusso93
mrusso93
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High School - 9th Grade

Explain the irony of the missionary circle and the "squalid lives of the Mrunas" in chapter 24.

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Posted by mrusso93 on Sunday May 4, 2008 at 4:55 PM and tagged with chapter 24, irony, mrunas, to kill a mockingbird, tom robinson, womens missionary circle.

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  1. podunc Teacher
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    The irony that surrounds the efforts of the women's missionary circle is the fact that these women bemoan the difficult lives of the Mrunas, but are indifferent to the suffering of African-Americans in their own town.

    They gossip about Tom Robinson and his wife, unaware that Tom is now dead--shot by prison guards as he tried to escape. They claim to have great respect for J. Grimes Everett's work with the Mruna tribe, but they do not want to offer any of the same Christian charity to the people who are right underneath their own noses. 

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    Posted by podunc on Sunday May 4, 2008 at 6:49 PM