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To Kill a MockingbirdCOmpare and Contrast

Sweet and Sour, wrong and right, night and day. Most people have come to beleive that opposites, while having differences, are usually similar in some ways. In the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, two children Jean Louise "Scout" Finch and Jeremy "Jem" Finch encounter changes in their small town. Their father Atticus Finch, attourney-at-law, has taken up a challenging case, and the whole town seems to be affected. The two children, Scout and Jem, handle there changes and the changes between each other in the individual ways through their different actions and ambitions. But when it comes down to their true values, things remain the same.
In the book "To Kill a Mockingbird," the author sets different purposes for the characters Jem and Scout to achieve. Throughout the novel, Scout serves as the narrator, so most of the story is written as an eight year old ...

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