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Thank you Way sneaks How has scout changed since to

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kill a mockingbird Literature is full of precocious young in's

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tom sawyer and shirley tiny tim Well most of the

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time we don't get to see them grow up Not

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because they're dead Well tiny tim might be dead but

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because their books simply end after we turned the last

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page we have to imagine where their lives take them

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Scout finch was one of those little literary lasses who

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lived on in our imaginations Maybe she joined the civil

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rights movement Maybe she burned her broad lived out of

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a vw van painted rainbow colored Maybe she married dill

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and together they founded a massive pickle empire Yeah in

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our imaginations Well anything's possible But one thing we never

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imagined An actual follow up story in Scout finch is

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life We'll go set a watchman tells the story of

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scout almost twenty years after to kill a mockingbird ends

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how has she changed in what ways That she remained

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the same That she still rocked those overalls You know

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we'll get to all those questions But first who was

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scout in to killa mockingbird while most girls in the

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nineteen thirties were made of sugar spice and everything nice

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scout finch wasn't most girls if you wore overalls rarely

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bathes and she beat your face in if you talk

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bad about her daddy atticus scout was a girl with

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a quick temper and a lack of self control and

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she wasn't afraid to be a little rough and tumble

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for what she believed in She was proud of her

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moral superiority something she undoubtedly got from her father and

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she loved getting into other people's business like poor boo

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radley who just wanted to be left alone Well to

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kill a mockingbird closes with scout at nine years old

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go set a watchman picks up her story at age

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twenty six So in the course of seventeen years what's

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changed No honestly not much She has stopped going by

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scout in favour of her real name jean louise she's

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much more likely to fight with her words than with

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her fist And yes she has sadly trained in her

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overalls but well she's still not wearing dresses Jury's still

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out on her bathing schedule however but those air all

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superficial details personality wise scout or we mean jean louise

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Remains the same She still has a quick temper and

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a lack of self control and she still does whatever

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she wants whenever she wants and that sanctimonious sense of

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moral superiority Yeah that's not going anywhere it's that moral

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superiority which she inherited from her father that ends up

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sending jean louise into an existential crisis when she finds

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out dear old daddy isn't who she thinks he is

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It's a deeply personal conflict for jean louise more confusing

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than anything she ever felt is a nine year old

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Nine year olds worry about their parents getting mad at

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them Never think that they might get mad at their

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parents There's one last similarity between to kill a mockingbird

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and go set a watchman at the end of go

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set a watchman jean louise doesn't seem to have changed

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he's basically the same a twenty six and she was

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a nine Will she ever truly change shmoop amongst yourselves 00:03:01.373 --> [endTime] Let us know what you think

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