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To Kill A Mockingbird Eyes Of The Child Quotes

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Eyes of the Child The theme Eyes of the Child was shown in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird through Scout and her misunderstanding of snow . The quote one page 76 “The world’s endin’, Atticus please do something--!” which was said by Scout. This shows that she didn’t know what snow was and took it to an extreme. Most adults even though haven’t seen snow still were educated enough about it to know it was nothing. The children were also easily convinced by Mr. Avery that the cold weather that they were experiencing was because of their bad behavior over the summer. They were also convinced that the way he found his findings on the Rosetta Stone which has nothing to do with the weather. Mrs. Maudi also hated the snow and was to worried about

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