CHARACTER STUDY: Scout - Scout is a very unusual little girl, both in her own qualities and in her social position. She is unusually intelligent (she learns to read before beginning school), unusually confident (she fights boys without fear), unusually thoughtful (she worries about the essential goodness and evil of mankind), and unusually good (she always acts with ... attended the University of Alabama law school and spent the 1950's working for Eastern Airlines and writing short stories. On the suggestion of her editor, Lee developed one of her short stories into her only novel, To Kill A...

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• Grade Level: High School

... few acquaintances he did have was Harper Lee, a young girl who lived next-door. She grew up to become a brilliant woman and became famous for her work To Kill a Mockingbird. Critics say that Lee based the character of Dill, an extremely imaginative young boy on Capote. In Discovering Biography, Capote says, "(As a child ... , out of the blue, uninspired by any example. I'd never known anyone who wrote; indeed I knew few who read-. Capote went on to state in Music for Chameleons, "As certain young people practice piano four or five hours a day, so I played with my papers and pens. Yet I ne...

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• Grade Level: High School