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        The characters I chose that relate to each other are Scout’s Uncle Jack and Aunt Alexandra. Although they don’t share many similarities, One similarity they each share with each other is that they want to change Scout. In chapter 9 there is a quote that states, “She didn’t like the way I dressed in overalls and that I couldn’t possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches. Aunt Alexandra’s vision of me involved playing with small stoves, tea sets, and wearing the Add-A-Pearl necklace she gave me when I was born” (81). This quote alone shows that Aunt Alexandra wants Scout to act more like a lady and it’s stated somewhere later in the chapter that she doesn’t agree with Atticus’s way of raising Scout. Uncle Jack doesn’t want to change Scout exactly the same way that Aunt Alexandra does but there is correlation between the two. Hey says, “I’ll be here a week, and I don’t want to hear any words like that while I’m here. Scout, you’ll get in trouble if you go a...

(This is the photo I used as the setting of Maycomb.) One of the quickest observations I made was the large sign in the middle of the photo. Religion is a very big part of the lives of the people who live in Maycomb as shown in the quote “In the long hours of church—was it then I learned?” Or “She would set me a writing task by scrawling the alphabet firmly across the top of a tablet, then copying out a chapter of the Bible beneath.” Both of the quotes show how much church and the Bible mean to Maycomb and the sign referring to God is something I believe that Maycomb would have. One of the other biggest observations were the fences. In the book it mentions Maycomb has many farmers and I think that there would be several fences to contain their crops and/or animals. One quote says “As Maycomb was a farm country, nickels and dimes were hard to come by for doctors and dentists and lawyers.” Which means that most of Maycomb is farmers and it wouldn’t be unlikely that they had danc...