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To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter 10 Analysis

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In the beginning of chapter 10 in To Kill a Mockingbird Scout is talking about Atticus, he is in his fifties. One day Scout and Jem asks Atticus why he is so old. Atticus says he started life late. Scout is saying how Atticus is not like all the other parents at Scout and Jem’s school. Scout says that he works in an office and he does not work at places like the other parents do. Scout also says that Atticus is almost blind in his left eye (102). Scout is talking to Miss Maudie and Miss Maudie is telling scout information about her father Atticus. Miss Maudie tells Scout that if Atticus was in his thirties their life would be different then it is now. Atticus comes home that day to find Scout aiming her gun at Miss Maudie’s butt. The Atticus
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She resorts to looking in the crowd and seeing Mr. Cunningham. She talks to him like in a normal setting. This shows Scout’s innocence by bringing up Mr. Cunningham son when he is trying to lynch a man. Atticus tries to teach his children his ways and what is going on in the world around them but Scout’s innocence hold her back from

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“You’re lucky, you know. You and Jem have the benefit of your father’s age. If your father was thirty you’d find life quite different,” Miss Maudie was reiterating to Scout (Lee 120). Miss Maudie is helping Scout the good qualities about Scout’s father because she wants Scout to see that Atticus has humility, integrity, and strong morals. By putting her father into perspective for Scout, she teaches Scout to appreciate her father more rather than comparing him to the other kids’ fathers.

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