The Child by Tiger
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All Themes Violence, Darkness, and Growing Up Evil and Innocence Racism and Violence
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All Characters Narrator Dick Prosser Randy Shepperton Nebraska Crane Mr. Shepperton Pansy Harris
Symbols
All Symbols Guns
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The Child by Tiger

by

Thomas Wolfe
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The Child by Tiger Symbols

Guns

Guns symbolize the capacity for violence and, in particular, the narrator’s changing view of Dick Prosser’s violent potential. At first, the gun symbolizes what the narrator and his friends respect about Dick Prosser…

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