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To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter 11 Analysis
In chapter 11, of Harper Lee’s, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem has to go to Mrs. Dubose’s house after school every day to read to her because he destroyed her flowers. The story would be described much differently,however, if it was from the perspective of Mrs. Dubose.
All throughout the first part of the book, Jem and Scout have to walk past Mrs. Dubose’s house to get home from school everyday. They are ridiculed constantly and, for the most part, handle it well. That is, before Mrs. Dubose crossed the line. She called the children’s father an “N-word lover”. Jem did not take this insult well. His tolerance and patience disappeared the next day when he took Scout’s new baton and destroyed all of Mrs. Dubose’s flowers. When she found out about

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