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Okay Ap english language learners welcome to yet another passage

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is our last one in the siri's all about nelle

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harper lee Well the primary purpose of the first two

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paragraphs is to do what And we're just going to

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skim the first two paragraphs because that's all the first

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question assets So do you know i really have been

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born in monroeville emily and four children and him and

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your friend feeling officially in a small town Similar ways

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make him alabama killa mockingbird rather than fascinated here right

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Local children you know kindergarten she rennick senator young boy

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truman continuing to bung and maintain lifelong friendship leaves or

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character of deal They're to your child's fabulous hundred french

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room and terminated for the other boys on the roof

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Penn truman capote Hey tom harper lee Well think about

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this These two paragraphs represent well purely biographical information about

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lee that air then compared to mockingbird Yes similar in

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many ways to make him Yeah well the author simply

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point out how certain parts of lee's life were similar

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Teo to kill a mockingbird so that the reader can

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trace the inspiration Yeah well given information's way too detailed

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to be considered generalization get rid of age and there's

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no real thesis b or claim see president also get

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rid of both of those nor any mention of widely

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included the similarities to her real life in her writing

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so get rid of e It's strictly observation at this

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point but we're intrigue nonetheless Maybe it'll explain the devastation

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caused by go set a watchman All right so that's

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it answers deke to point out parallels between lee's childhood 00:01:32.114 --> [endTime] and mockingbird

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