To Kill a Mockingbird

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why do they describe dill as a pocket merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies?

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Dill is an imaginative and extroverted child. He filled the lazy afternoons in Maycomb with fantasy stories of all kinds. Merlin is an allusion to the Wizard from the legends of King Arthur. The eccentric plans may also refer to the plan to get Boo Radley to come out of his house.

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