mwestwood's reply is very good.
I
want to add that this quotation from Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird
helps me, as a reader, make sense of the scene involving the rabid dog toward the end
of part one of the novel. Just as rabies can turn a friendly animal into an almost unrecognizable
and dangerous threat, the racism in the community can send otherwise normal people into a mob
that is "stark, raving mad."
In both instances -- in the scene with
the rabid dog and in the trial scene -- all hopes to combat the irrational and destructive force
of rabies/racism are put not on the sherrif but on Atticus and his deadly aim. He manages to kill
the dog with one shot, but he does not experience a similar success with the jury, of
course.
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