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The primary purpose of the first two paragraphs (lines 1–15) is to
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- 00:05
Okay Ap english language learners welcome to yet another passage
- 00:08
is our last one in the siri's all about nelle
- 00:11
harper lee Well the primary purpose of the first two
- 00:13
paragraphs is to do what And we're just going to
- 00:20
skim the first two paragraphs because that's all the first
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- 00:22
question assets So do you know i really have been
- 00:24
born in monroeville emily and four children and him and
- 00:27
your friend feeling officially in a small town Similar ways
- 00:30
make him alabama killa mockingbird rather than fascinated here right
- 00:33
Local children you know kindergarten she rennick senator young boy
- 00:36
truman continuing to bung and maintain lifelong friendship leaves or
- 00:39
character of deal They're to your child's fabulous hundred french
- 00:42
room and terminated for the other boys on the roof
- 00:44
Penn truman capote Hey tom harper lee Well think about
- 00:49
this These two paragraphs represent well purely biographical information about
- 00:53
lee that air then compared to mockingbird Yes similar in
- 00:56
many ways to make him Yeah well the author simply
- 00:58
point out how certain parts of lee's life were similar
- 01:01
Teo to kill a mockingbird so that the reader can
- 01:04
trace the inspiration Yeah well given information's way too detailed
- 01:07
to be considered generalization get rid of age and there's
- 01:10
no real thesis b or claim see president also get
- 01:14
rid of both of those nor any mention of widely
- 01:17
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
- 01:26
caused by go set a watchman All right so that's
- 01:29
it answers deke to point out parallels between lee's childhood 00:01:32.114 --> [endTime] and mockingbird
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