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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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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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spent the next steps

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