'To Kill A Mockingbird': Character Analysis

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In Bolth the storys black boy and how to kill a mockingbird the two main chareters schout and Richard have compleatly diffrent adversertys while growing up each thing drasticly changed thair lives. For example in bolth the storys they bolth have simpler disadvantages in thair lives and that is that they don't have a father / mother figure. That changes thair lives drastically another challenge that they had to go through is that Richard was a black boy growing up in the jim crow south with a passion for reading, And scout was a vary smart white girl but back then white girls and just girls in general were foreshadowed over so they were not cared about as much as a white man would be.but another reason would be that they did have some advantages

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