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Mrs Dubose In To Kill A Mockingbird
In this book is that there is more to a person than the first thought that comes to your head. It comes up with Scout and Jem's neighbor Mrs. Dubose, she is an older women that tends not not think of what she is saying to the kids. When Scout and Jem first met Mrs. Dubose she was always mean to them when they had walked by her house, but one time she said that Atticus was a “nigger lover” (page 136 Harper Lee) and Jem did not like that. Jem had gotten extremely upset and went into her yard and cut all of the flower heads off her flowers, Mrs. Dubose was very upset about that. Jem ended up having to say sorry to her and to pay her back he had to read to her. Scout went with Jem to read to her and she was still horrible to them, but then something happened to Mrs. Dubose when the kids were there and her assistant told them to leave. They both came back the next day and she made Jem read for a longer time. It turns out that Mrs. Dubose had been a morphine addict, and she had Jem read to longer everyday because she was trying to stay off the morphine as long as she could till she died. Jem and Scout did not realize that she was a morphine addict and did not know why she was so gross looking. In the end they …show more content…
Scout knew one of the men and then started talking to him. The man was Mr. Cunningham he tried not to acknowledge Scout because then the rest of the men would know that he was giving Atticus items and doing jobs for him as well. Scout also started talking to him about his son and how he was in her grade and that he came and ate with the Finch family for dinner one night. Atticus was really surprised that she started talking to him like that and Atticus was not mad at Scout, Jem and, Dill because they made a diversion so then the mob of men would not hurt Tom Robinson. In the end I wondered mainly why jem stood up, and why the mob of men had left. Now that I looked into it I answered my
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