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In To Kill a Mockingbird Scout is really, really not interested in learning about the so-called requirements of her gender. Even though she realizes that she can't escape that whole growing-up thing, she still resists her march toward adulthood—and, by extension, ladyhood.
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did
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to kill a mockingbird
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it harper lee's to kill a mockingbird eleven area it girl
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many lines from both directly units that's healed
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first-person perspective used in the novel makes those lines even more
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impactful
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for example legion says k
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kids
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help
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beyond intercept
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and this is a kid who likes to speak about instead arnie read or write with
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that i had no option solution
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personnel being called a girl is the worst possible insult
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whitish find it so insulted
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in later passage gain further insight in the scouts feelings about being a girl
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i thought this tax twelve thirteen cotton penitentiary closing at
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and for the second time and i think that every calling
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pink cotton candy injury
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aside from creating an extremely vivid image this line makes it crystal clear
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that scout finds girlhood uh... risk
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being a girl only get some stuff
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fingerprinted all the fun thing she really wants to do you know always stuff
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there may be another reason scout resist unedited
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let's take about the people in her life
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g doesn't have a mother and her father seems a bit on the a sexual side
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scientist misconduct like we see it
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is it really surprised that she doesn't
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dribble around women
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again in the book we read
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i was more at home and i thought it around
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people like mister had
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t did not happy with anything quest instinct that you
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leaving him was not harry credit card lessons that
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it's implied that scout finds the whole business of being a late night someone
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dangers
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he describes these feelings clearly
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with this one from the book
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ladies and that is always felt that i think that they had seen and bring it
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back to the elsley
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scott seems the fear women
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so much so that she would rather be doing anything battling with ladies
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of course dot does recognize that one day she will have no choice but to be a
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lady
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there is no doubt about it
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and c_n_n_ do this work
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planet's surface fragrant ladies backstabbing
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fans deathly enduring cool one
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discount field sexual
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what do you think it's
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is there any way she can remain a tomboy for life
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it should arrive on the usual path
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