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    Mature‚ Young Woman As a young girl grows up‚ there are many stages of childhood she experiences‚ full of drama‚ tears and emotions.  Going through all of this makes a person realize and accept their mistakes‚ mature and change. In the novel‚ To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ published in 1960‚ Scout Finch‚ the protagonist‚ matures throughout the story.  This is caused by all the occurring events in Maycomb‚ the Finch’s hometown. The 6-year old Jean Louise Scout Finch‚ who has no experience

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    Atticus was a character featured in the novel To Kill A Mocking Bird written by Harper Lee. The novel showed us that Atticus was caring. The novel also applied that he was very stern. It could also be seen that Atticus believed in himself in all situations. Another characteristic that was strongly implied was that he was wise. The final characteristic that was shown in the novel was that Atticus was courageous. In the novel To Kill A Mocking Bird it is shown that Atticus was very caring. “’No I

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    The Truth will Prevail Justice is “the quality of being just; righteousness‚ equitableness‚ or moral rightness: to uphold the justice of a cause”(Dictionary).Harper Lee uses the theme of Justice throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird to express her opinions on the injustices of America at the time and to advocate ways in which they can be changed. At the beginning of the novel‚ Lee uses Scouts child-like perspective to make points about the injustices caused by misunderstanding and innocence

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    The novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" is about a girl named Scout Finch who lives with her brother‚ Jem‚ and their widowed father Atticus‚ in the Alabama town of Maycomb. Maycomb is suffering through the Great Depression‚ but Atticus is a wealthy lawyer and the Finch family is financially fine in comparison to the rest of society. One summer‚ Jem and Scout become friends with a boy named Dill‚ who has come to live in their neighborhood for the summer. Dill becomes fascinated with the spooky house on

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    memory. They began to put their plan in to action and several Jews were killed from it and others were missing and that did affect Jewish population greatly. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel tells the horrendous story about the everyday life of a Jew during the Holocaust‚ it’s a memoir of their struggles and their unhappiness. This book tells us how Jews were punished with out no reason and how things could of ended if they would of seen that everybody is the same for this reason people should read

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    battle. The events of this book followed the lives of two young children and although said events were sometimes magnificently overwhelming they generally corroborated that of happy and exciting lives of curious children‚ better known as Jem and Scout Finch. (This is a very long sentence. A single sentence should contain just one idea. Break this one down.)Of course all children learn and grow up and as I conquered my way through the Pulitzer Prize winner ’To Kill A Mocking Bird’‚ a famous work

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    fit in.”-Mandy Hale In the south of the United States during the 30’s in the town of Maycomb‚ Alabama we follow the upbringing of two children in a racist‚ judging‚ non compassionate society. In the book To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee Jem and Scout Finch learn many lessons through out the book that will help them further themselves in life. They learn valuable lessons on not judging a person without walking in their shoes‚ and to have empathy toward others. Firstly‚ One lesson that Jem

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    Yesterday afternoon‚ on main street‚ Ms. Jean Finch‚ Mr. Jem Finch and Mr. Dill were chased by a rapid dog named Tim Johnson.  When asked what they were doing‚ they stated “we were looking for things to shoot with our air rifles. As we were walking down the street we saw Tim Johnson looking crazy mad.”  That day‚ Jem and Scout saw Tim Johnson‚ a dog who belongs to Mr. Harry Johnson. The dog’s acting kind of strange‚ so they run home to tell Calpurnia‚ the house keeper. “At first‚ I told the kids

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    first inaugural speech‚ made after the 1932 presidential election. From this clue‚ it is reasonable to infer that the action of the story opens in the summer of 1933‚ an assumption that subsequent historical clues support. “Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something‚ and I asked Miss Maudie about it. “Your father’s right‚” she said. “Mockingbirds

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    an impressionable age my Dad told me of a dumb white cop… telling a smart black woman… she was ’really just a Kaffir.’." (The New York Times) This man‚ Roger Cohen‚ grew up to understand how horrible racism is in Africa‚ as well as Scout did in To Kill A Mockingbird. But family problems are not the only problems‚ many problems are out in the public. Heaps of arguments and confrontations have happened because of racism. "… the court appointed him to defend this nigger.’… but Atticus aims to defend

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