Mrs. Dubose In To Kill A Mockingbird

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People are not always who they seem to be. Mrs. Dubose is an old lady who seems to not care for other people and is very disrespectful. She sits on her front porch and says rude comments about the people who are walking by. One day when Jem and Scout were walking by Mrs. Dubose said a rude comment about their dad. Jem later came back at destroyed her flowers with a baton that he had bought with his birthday money. He was then punished and had to read to Mrs. Dubose. Later on in the book Mrs. Dubose passes away and Jem realizes that she is actually a kind and caring person. Jem came to that conclusion about Mrs. Dubose because she had gave him a flower petal from one of the flowers that he had destroyed. At first Jem thought that she was being

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