After reading the assignment for this blog, the thing that came to my mind was being like Scout in the way that I didn't exactly act like a girl. When I was younger, I rarely brushed my hair and thought getting clothes for my birthday or Christmas instead of toys was just plain gross. I hated going to church because I had to wear dumb dresses that my grandma had picked out for me. As I grew older, I eventually loved clothes and became more girly though. My brother is older than me and he won't go on rollercoasters, innertubing, and many other examples. Now, many people probably don't think I am at all boyish because girls will go on scarey rides and things, but I have just always felt not quite as girly as other girls when compared in some ways.
Another way I can relate to To Kill a Mockingbird is my brother and I. We were never exactly as close as Scout and Jem, but we still did things together. Later as the book is progressing, Jem matures, but he gets moody and doesn't want to play with Scout anymore; that definately happened to me. A lot of the time my brother was rude and got mad at me just for talking. He wanted me to leave him alone along with his friends. I couldn't hangout with him at school at all.
The lessons I have learned from To Kill a Mockingbird are that everyone has to grow up sometimes and that being different from everyone else really doesn't matter it's just who you are and you should do what you want to do, even if other people think you should be acting differently.
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