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To Kill A Mockingbird Tradition Analysis

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To Kill a Mockingbird SEE Paragraph 1 The Finch Family symbolizes tradition and holds certain values in Aunt Alexandra’s eyes. When Aunt Alexandra comes to stay with the Finches, one of the statements she makes is that “when you stop to think about it, [her and Atticus’] generation’s practically the first in the Finch family not to marry its cousins” (Lee 173). The Finch Family has formed a tradition that was clearly difficult to break until Aunt Alexandra’s generation. But Aunt Alexandra has a different outlook on what tradition is and its role in a family. In Scout’s narrations around the time Aunt Alexandra, she says that Aunt Alexandra believes that “the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was” (Lee 175).

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