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- subject = english
- title = Similarities of Harper Lee's life to her nove "to
- kill a mockingbird"
-
- To Kill A Mockingbird
- By Harper Lee
-
- What
- similarities did Harper LeeÆs life have with Scouts life?
-
- In Harper LeeÆs
- story she writes about many things that happened to
- her as a child. In the
- story Harper is telling the story in the position scout is
- in. Lee is actually
- telling The story that she lived as a child. Her real life had
- various similarities
- to Scouts life. In this essay I will explain the similarities
- of Harper LeeÆs
- life to Scouts life.
- As Harper lee was growing up she lived in a sleepy
- town named
- Monroeville, Alabama. In this town she grew up hearing crazy stories
- and
- rumors which the townspeople would make up. As a child she also heard
- a
- lot of stories about ghosts, tall tales, and rumors. This reflects in her
- story
- with all the strange stories about Boo (Arthur) Radley.
- At seven
- years old she started writing and reading. Even before they
- had taught her
- these skills in school. She was an intellectual prodigy. She
- was bored in
- school and was much more intelligent than all the other kids. As
- you remember
- in the story Scout had learned to read and write way before all
- the other
- kids and Scout also was bored in school.
- In real life Harper Lee was a tomboy.
- In the story Scot was also a
- Tomboy, she hadnÆt even worn a dress until her
- first day of school. Also
- HarperÆs best friend was here cousin Truman Capote.
- Who is basically what
- Dill (Charles Baker Harris) was in the book. Harper
- was a child who for
- some reason used rather adult words when she talked. If
- you notice in the
- book the vocabulary that Scout is using is complicated for
- a child of merely
- eight years old. She was also known to knock a boy down
- and start fighting
- with him. In the book Scout fought with a boy in two or
- three occasions.
- As a child Harper Lee and her cousin witnessed a KKK meeting.
- For
- Harper it was an experience that showed the evil in her community. This
- experience
- showed up in her book, where such comments like ôNiger Loverö
- were displayed
- by the characters in her book.
- In this essay I have displayed examples of
- how The book ôTo Kill a
- Mockingbirdö compares to Harper LeeÆs own childhood
- experiences. I also
- explained where some of the characters in the book compare
- to people in her
- real life.
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