To Kill A Mockingbird Or The Book Thief

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Throughout the school year as writer, whether it be a school paper, newsletter, article, or poem, there are two specific guidelines to always keep in mind. One of them would be that being a good writes has much less to do with following the guidelines and more to do with having something you want to say and using your words to get the point across. Especially when reading books like To Kill a Mockingbird or The Book Thief there is alway a message portrayed in the passage with massive amounts of meaning so that the reader can actually learn something from the book. You could write the most elegant paper with exquisite vocabulary but if you are not going to say anything meaningful then no one will end up remembering it. Another important guideline

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