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    I want to introduce a book whose title is “To Kill the Mockingbird”. The author of this book is Harper Lee. The mockingbird in the book means that the man who is willing to help others who are in trouble. They never do harmful things to others and we should not hurt them. The main character in the book is Atticus Finch. He is a lawyer and he has two children whose names are Scout Finch and Jem Finch. Atticus defends Tom Robinson who is accused of raping Mayella Ewell in a trial. Although Atticus

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    A really fucking long ass time ago in a place called "Kickapoo", there lived a religious family, Through and through. yay, there was a black sheep, his name was young boy named JB and he refused to step in like. He wrote a tasty jam and all the planets did align. OH THE DRAGON BALLS WERE BLAZING, AS I STEPPED INTO HIS CAGE AND SLICED HIS FUCKING COCKLES WITH MY LONG AND SHINY BLADE. NOW MY SON, GO, AND, ROCK I am fIlling in the blanks I am fIlling in the blanks I am fIlling in the blanks I am fIlling

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    Change is often viewed from a negative perspective but has positive results. In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, some individuals embrace change while others deny it. Change, both personal and social, requires great courage. Personal change requires courage and perseverance no matter the size. Dill is a boy who has always lived with his mom and now “was spending the summer with his aunt, Miss Rachel, and would be spending every summer in Maycomb from now on.” (Lee 8). Dill does not get

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    A.Deming’s book, Zoologies, was not exactly what I expected. While her style is friendly and readable, and her tone was casual enough for anyone to enjoy, it was organized differently than I anticipated. I was expecting something like The Urban Bestiary, with each chapter focusing in on one subject while conveying an overall theme. The collage style is a very appropriate one for this type of book. Zoologies is not written in collage style, though, and I expected it to be. I shouldn’t have, but I

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    Intertextuality is the idea that there is only one literary work and that authors use events and ideas from that single story to build their own. One example of this are the similarities among the Divergent Series by Veronica Roth and The Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins. Both take place in a dystopian society, and both populations are split up into different groups (districts in The Hunger Games and factions in Divergent). Within both books, the main characters are trying to shut down the

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    Atticus Point Of View

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    This passage takes part in the beginning of chapter 10, Jem and Scout have found out about their father defending Tom Robinson, a black man who is on trial. Scout also overheard Atticus talking with his brother about the consequences the case will bring to the kids’ lives. The novel is a first person narration, through Scout Finch’s point of view. This type of narration is limited because the reader only knows what Scout knows or has experienced. In this passage there is a difference of point of

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    In the book, To Kill A Mockingbird, it is a sin to kill a mockingbird and the one person who is like a mockingbird is Boo Radley. Boo Radley is just a quiet guy, who wants peace and quiet because he just to be left alone and in the book Scout, Jem and Dill try to make Boo come out with a fishing pole with a note at the end. Boo does nothing to harm anybody just like a mockingbird, mockingbirds just make music for people to enjoy and they don’t eat people’s gardens and Boo is just quiet and enjoys

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    Potter Stewart once said, “Fairness is what justice really is.” In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the Finch family values fairness and equality. They let each ‘party’ share their side of the story, and don’t believe in discrimination. Part on of the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is about fairness and reveals everyone gets the chance to share their side of the story. Uncle Jack, Atticus’s brother, learns the importance of fairness because of Scout. In To Kill A Mockingbird Harper

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    William Wilkie Collins was a famous and powerful novelist in the 19th century. Collins’ The Moonstone is said to be the adoptive parent of the great English detective genre. TS Eliot, claiming that the genre was "invented by Collins and not by Poe", declared it to be "the first, the longest and the best of modern English detective novel”(Ronald 179). Collins’ childhood and adulthood influenced the novel, The Moonstone. Collins was born to the notable landscape artist, William Collins. At a youthful

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    To Kill A Mockingbird Final Essay People go through life seeing only one perspective, their own. That's why it's hard to understand another person’s views in life, because they've only seen it their way. To Kill a Mockingbird is a book about coming of age and seeing the world in different ways. But seeing and understanding are very different, and understanding isn't done quickly, it often takes a long time. That's why To Kill a Mockingbird has a recurring theme of “You don't know a person until you

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