How Does Muhammad Ali Affect Scout Doing Hard Things

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In the book To Kill A Mockingbird, Scout is told she needs to walk in Walter’s shoes in order to understand that they are poor and can't pay people back. This helps us to understand how the theme doing hard things is explained. Mohammad Ali has also experienced something similar and if we walk in his shoes we will see how he is affected by doing hard things. In the story Scout is making foun of Walter Cunningham. Scout told the teacher in her class “Walter ain't gotta quarter to give you”. This shows Scout that Walter has to deal with hard things like this every day. In my article Muhammad Ali had to fight people and it's hard to fight a lot of people the are also professionals all the time. Muhammad Ali “finished with a record of 56-5 with

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