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few graves in the cemetery were marked with crumbling tombstones; newer ones were
outlined with brightly colored glass and broken Coca-Cola
bottles.Lightning rods guarding some graves denoted dead
who rested uneasily; stumps of burned-out candles stood at the heads of infant graves.
It was a happy cemetery.
In
this chapter, Calpurnia takes Scout and Jem to her church, The First Purchase Church (a
Black church). The children notice right away how different it is from their own church.
There is a cemetary out back. Some of the graves in the cemetary are marked with
lightning rods. A lightning rod is a metal pole that is supposed to deflect lightning or
ground it, so that it will not destroy a structure.
The
irony here is that the graves marked by lightning rods must contain people who are not
resting easily because why would a dead person have to worry about getting struck by
lightning? There really is no logical reason for a grave to have a lightning rod - what
is being protected? The corpse? The author is implying that some of the graves probably
contain people who died while not at peace, or who died violently, or who died without
salvation (since this is a church cemetary).
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