To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird

Look closely at this line: “Jem stared at me so long I asked what was the matter, but got Nothing, Scout for an answer.” What does the elimination of the quotation punctuation do for this passage?

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If the quotations were eliminated, we would not know that it was Scout narrating.

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