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Scout Growing Up In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Scout faces three main difficulties growing up. Firstly, she is arguably more intellectually advanced than her classmates and is being held back by a rigid education system. Scout knows how to read earlier than her classmates because of the influence of her intellectual father at home and the abundance of reading material in her house (Lee 20). At school her teacher holds her back by saying things such as “‘You won’t learn to read until you’re in the third grade.’” (Lee 21). Secondly, because she is a very perceptive person (this might be why her nickname is Scout even though it sounds nothing like her legal name), she starts to grasp the issues of her town better than her peers. This means she has to come to grips with the realities of southern

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