To Kill A Mockingbird Epilogue Analysis

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To Kill a Mockingbird Epilogue Summer ended and with it, the most eventful summer that I would ever have. Many years had passed since then; I was now a married woman with a son, soon to be attending school for the first time in the fall. “Thomas Radley Harris come here right now!” shouted Dill. “You cannot run away from your responsibilities forever. You have to go to school, now come here and get dressed!” “Never” he shouted back “I’m not goin’ to that rotten school, and you can’t make me!” I chuckled; he had definitely gotten his defiant and spunky personality from me. But after a good 45 minutes of resisting and screaming, Dill and I managed to get him washed, dressed, and fed, and then Dill walked him to school. I would’ve loved to go with them, but I had agreed to meet Jem for brunch at our favorite childhood restaurant, The County Dinner, on …show more content…
He had tuberculosis. Aunt Alexandria and I have decided that his funeral will be tomorrow. Invite anyone that you think would care to come” he responded. His tone was vapid, the words came from his mouth in such a way that you would think that he had never experienced happiness in his life. And with that, he stood up to leave. “You listen to me Jeremy Finch!” I cried out imprudently. The words flooded out of my mouth before I could stop them as I stood up to look him in the face. “I haven’t seen you in years, and when you come back you look disgusting, smell disgusting, and deliver horrendous news as easily as you would tell the weather. And now you’re just going to get up and leave just as quickly as you came?!” My eyes were filling with tears, I tried to ignore them, but before I knew it I was crying like a child. “No, you come back here an-” Before I could finish, he turned and slapped

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