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To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in Alabama during the Depression, and is narrated by the main character, a little girl named Jean Louise "Scout" Finch. Her father, Atticus Finch, is a lawyer with high moral standards. Scout, her brother Jem, and their friend Dill are intrigued by the local rumors about a man named Boo Radley, who lives in their neighborhood but never leaves his house. Legend has it that he once stabbed his father in the leg with a pair of scissors, and he is made out to be a kind of monster. Dill is from Mississippi but spends his summer in Maycomb at a house near the Finch's.

The children are curious to know more about Boo, and during one summer create a mini-drama they enact daily, which tells the events of his life as…

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Posted By woojean k #325273 at May 23, 2013 6:02 PM

explain scout's exposure to reverse prejudice at chuch with carpurnia?

Dont make it long please

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Posted By janaea r #325017 at May 22, 2013 1:52 PM

Why is it so important that the jury has not returned by eleven that night?

In To Kill a Mockingbird chapter Twenty-One, the night of trial.

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Posted By shirley t #324945 at May 22, 2013 8:42 AM

One of the themes running throughout "To Kill A Mockingbird" has to do with the world of children opposing the world of adult. How do we see the two clash? Particularly from the sense of understanding or not understanding what is going on.

The answer is suppose to be found on pages 145 through 190. I got my answer wrong on homework and I would like to know the right answer.

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