Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" opens with a short chapter where the narrator, whom we later come to know as Scout, takes the reader back to her childhood spent in a small town called Maycomb. She mentions the accident where 'Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow' and uses it as a device to set the plot in motion. In her conversational, familiar tone, Scout introduces ... about the other characters as though the reader were already familiar with them and subtly weaves in their relationships with her into conversation, rather than stating them directly. She referred to her father...

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Author Biography Harper Lee, born April 28 in 1926, is an American author mainly known for her one and only novel "To Kill A Mockingbird". The main protagonist portrayed in this book (Scout Finch) was based on her own life experiences as a child. Ms. Lee won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Presidential Medal ... : adjective; diffusing warmth and friendliness; "He waited in amiable silence, and sought to reinforce my position: "You never went to school and you do all right, so I'll just stay home too." Chapter 3 9.) Foray: noun; a sudden, short attack; "Jem threw open the gate and sped to ...

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... people and important social issues of that time. There are two depictions in the novel of how to treat someone. One is mercilessly and the other is with kindness like one would treat themself. To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming of age as Scout and Jem encounter the problems brought upon by the attitudes of ... . Early in the book, one of Scout's thoughts is "it was then, I suppose, that Jem and I first started to part company. Sometimes I did not understand him but my periods of bewilderment were short lived. This was beyond me." (Lee 61) Early in the novel Scout and Jem are very close. Th...

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