... such as both being fictional autobiographies, although parallels can be drawn from the authors" lives. For example, during the court case, Scout picks up legal vocabulary from Atticus. A parallel can be drawn from Harper Lee's life. She was educated at the State University of Alabama, where she studied law. This ... prepared for horror, "shaken by nerves by agitation" (P.12), she thought that the gleam of light was a "herald of some kind of vision from another world" (P.12). Jane cries out in terror, but her aunt believes that she is just trying to escape her punishment, and ignores her...

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