... considered potentially dangerous. That the place is given a Christian name illustrates that the people and the place are one and the same thing. However that Tom is fast asleep means that both appear far from human. They are giving grotesque animal like qualities. "Jo and his order" (BH 258) are in may wqys similar to the characters portrayed in A Tale of Two Cities. With the likes of La Vengeance, Jo becomes ... the "Tough Subject". In fact "few people are known in Tom All Alone's by any Christian sign" (BH 358) Isolated from Christian civilisation, they have evolved ... ...

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