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Comparing The Chosen And To Kill A Mockingbird

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To Kill a Mockingbird and The Chosen are both iconic works of literature. Both novels take place in America during the early-mid 1900s, while the threat of Nazi Germany looms overhead. But even though both books are located in America, the setting is very different. To Kill a Mockingbird is set in 1930s Alabama, specifically the old, country, prejudiced county of Maycomb. In contrast, The Chosen is set the much more modern and updated 1940s city of Brooklyn, New York. To Kill a Mockingbird is narrated by tomboy country girl Jean Finch, or Scout. The Chosen is narrated by Reuven Malter, an orthodox, but secular minded, Jewish boy. The main characters start off as innocent children, but as their lives go on their innocent minds and thoughts are

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