Scout Cast Out In To Kill A Mockingbird

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In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout is cast out from Jem and Dill and she finds an ally in Miss Maudie. When Scout’s only friends exclude her from their friendship because she is a girl she is forced to go find companion in someone else. Before they cast out Scout they were all close and had played games together.
There are many ways in the novel that the assertion Scout is cast out from Jem and Dill. For example, “They spent days together in the treehouse plotting and planning, calling me only when they needed a third party” (TKAMBp. 41-42). In other words the two boys made up plans and ideas and only invited Scout into the treehouse when they needed her opinion or thoughts. Another quote is, “Until Jem and Dill excluded

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