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Similarities Between To Kill A Mockingbird And Atticus Finch

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What I meant was, if Atticus Finch drank until he was drunk he wouldn’t be as hard as some men are at their best. There are just some kind of men who-who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.-miss Maudie , to kill a mockingbird. Atticus finch is a character in the book to kill a mockingbird written by Harper lee and in this book a man named tom Robinson was accused of rapping and beating a white girl. Scouts father Atticus was the only lawyer in town that would defend tom of his wrongly accused crime.is kids getting whiskey for fruit cakes bad? Well in the story “a Christmas story”, written by Truman capote, a couple kids buy whiskey Illegally. …show more content…

The main character in to kill a mockingbird is the narrator scout, and the main character in “a Christmas story” is buddy. Scout and buddy are alike in many ways but one way is that they are both from poorish family and both have older parents or siblings to look up to. For example scout has her dad Atticus finch to look up to. Buddy has his parents to look up to so there are some examples explaining the the similarities of the two characters. Although there are similarities but there are also some difference like scouts a girl and buddy is a boy. For example even though scout acts like a boy but she is a girl and buddy is a boy so that's the difference between them both. Another similarity would be that both characters scout and buddy are both round characters in change in many ways. For example scout doesn't do the same thing every dad each and everyday is very different from the last one and the same goes for buddy each day is different so that's another similarity for the main characters of to kill a mockingbird and “ a Christmas …show more content…

For one they both take place in the south around Alabama so that's one similarity. For example a quote from to kill a mockingbird "Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square. Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer's day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum." And another example from “ a Christmas story” “ its fruitcake weather”. Everything has there differences also so here's one about to kill a mockingbird and “a Christmas story”, “a Christmas story” takes place during Christmas and to kill a mockingbird takes place just in the winter and does focus on the excitement of Christmas so that's one difference. For example in to kill a mockingbird, it snows but never say anything about it being Christmas. In “a Christmas story” it talks about it being Christmas and what they got for Christmas. Another similarity about the setting between the two stories would be that both stories are both in the same time period. For example in to kill a

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