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To Kill a Mockingbird ala shmoop..... my name's Scout and anybody

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who doesn't like what I've got to say gets a fresh knuckle sandwich I don't [Scout punching a sandwich]

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know why my dad decided naming something dumb like Jean Louise but it was

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probably revenge against whoever named him Atticus he probably didn't pulverize

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them like I would though Atticus is more of a peacemaker which is

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great for him but I wish he'd cut me a little slack after all it's not easy to

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avoid fights when your dad's a civil rights lawyer in the deep south things

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used to be pretty tame around here me and my brother Jim who can be more of a [Scout and Jim walking along the road]

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cow patty than a jewel hung out a lot with our runter neighbor dill seriously

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doesn't anybody have a normal name in this town? Anyway,

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the three of us got up to lots of awesome hijinks we even got some sweet

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air rifle so we could shoot birds no mocking birds though apparently they're

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the most innocent angels of the bird world we also did some poking around the

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Radley place you've heard about the Radley's right they're a pretty weird

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family but hands down the weirdest stuff is the gossip about Boo Radley and the

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cat eating dad stabbing monster next door he is one [Monster appears]

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crazy dude so Jen and Dill and I tried to bug him and get him to hang out with us

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you know when I say it aloud it doesn't sound like such a great idea but I liked

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going by boos house because there was this magic tree that always had goodies [Scout approaches tree]

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in it sticks of gum, loose change and also some soap dolls that look just like

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Jim and me yeah I hear how creepy it sounds now it was almost like some unseen

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person was watching our every move from the Radley house crazy right yeah good

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times until my dad took a case defending Tom

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Robinson a negro who was accused of raping a white lady I'm not sure what

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that word really means because nobody wants to tell me I really should get a [Scout reading a book]

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dictionary but whatever it was everyone got pretty hot and bothered about it

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throwing around the n-word and getting all up in my grill the whole

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court thing was a huge drag for me and Jem Atticus had to do lots of overtime

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and stuff he even went to the jailhouse to catch up on some reading and got a [Atticus appears in jailhouse]

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visit from a bunch of dudes that were a few torches and pitchforks away from an

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angry mob luckily dad has me to protect him he has got to have backup muscle

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right now I just need to convince aunt Alexandra of that she keeps trying to

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get me to stop swearing change out of my overalls

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whoever heard of a bodyguard in a dress and I can't wear pearls what if they get [Scout wearing a dress and Bruce Lee appears]

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all tangled up in my right hook then there was the trial that's when I

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realized my dad is a total superhero he was all this white lady was beaten up by

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a left-handed guy what do you think about that white lady's left-handed dad

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which is pretty smart because Tom couldn't even use his left hand at all

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really in fact the whole thing sounded like a pretty bogus story but that [Jury appears in court]

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didn't stop the jury from finding Tom guilty and then he got shot trying to

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escape from prison...Dill thinks that Boo Radley has the right idea staying locked

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away from the world hey who knows maybe he does on the bright side I won the

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starring role of Jon Ham in the school play an unexpected bonus of being

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giant ham the costume came in handy when a white ladies racist dad tried to stab [Man tries to stab scout]

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me Jem ended up with a broken arm too bad he wasn't dressed up like a bowl of

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mashed potatoes or something just as I was thinking guess this is how

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I'm gonna die as a giant ham Boo Radley saved the day and the bad guy fell on

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his own knife like an episode of America's dumbest criminals

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now at least, that's the official story you want to know what I think I think boo

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killed that guy but Dad and the sheriff wanted to keep him safe from the

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paparazzi and knows that old ladies with cakes I mean the guy's spent his whole [Old ladies appear with cakes]

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life hiding he's not really ready for social networking so maybe we should

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leave Boo alone hes like a mockingbird he didn't really hurt anybody or at

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least nobody who didn't deserve it... so in conclusion we shouldn't shoot Boo

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Radley with air raffles, more a quandry solved, don't you think?

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