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The Power of Fiction: A Close Look at a Chapter of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird'
I resisted reading To Kill a Mockingbird for many years, believing that it must be a depressing novel, given that it is primarily about...
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The Ups and Downs of Characters
If we go back to mythology and folklore, the hero of a story can have superhuman qualities and is often semi-divine in origin - in...
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Symbolism in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'
It's a little known fact to most school students who have to read To Kill a Mockingbird that Harper Lee submitted her manuscript to the...