Comparison of the Main Characters in To Kill a Mockingbird and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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Reading a book once in a while helps us from being ignorant from the outside world. Readers many times dare to compare and discuss about the books that they have read. This works when we read two master pieces of literature that could be very similar and in the same time very different stories. I had the great fortune of reading the screenplay of “To Kill a Mockingbird” as well as the part of the memoir “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”. After reading these two great pieces of literature I dare to compare the main characters, Scout from “To Kill a Mockingbird” and Maria from “I know why the caged bird sings”. The main intentions of this two books are to teach lesson to their readers whether they could be children or adults.

In the story “To Kill a Mockingbird” Scout is the main character from the story. She is a 7 year old child, who lives with her father Atticus and her brother Jim. Her mother die when Scout was just a baby girl. For this reason she lives in a single parent home. In the other hand, Maya the main character from the story “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” lives w...

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