What Does The Electric Dance Symbolize In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Capote states in the second paragraph that Holcomb is a town that is dead inside. The author implies that the electric dance sign on the roof on the old stucco structure doesn’t mean anything anymore to the people in the town because “the dancing has ceased.” This quote explains that the town is dead inside because dance symbolizes the joyful expression of our spirituality, as well as our natural state of happiness which exists within ourselves once we let go of the fear that hides it. However, this doesn’t exist in the everyday life of a person in the town because the dance is dead, and so is the town. Meanwhile, the town uses the Holcomb School, a good looking building compared to the bank that is “flaky” or to the streets that are “unnamed,