Scout And Lily Character Analysis

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Besides the obvious comparisons between Lily “Secret Life of Bees” (Sue Monk Kidd) and Scout “To Kill a Mockingbird” (Harper Lee) There are multiple comparisons you can make including their character traits and their relationships with their stand in mothers. Lily and Scout both have some obvious comparisons that affect them differently. The obvious comparisons between Lily and Scout are They both lost their mother at a young age, Scout, when she was two, and Lily when she was four, Both Lily and Scout have a “Stand in Mother” For Lily it was Rosaleen one of her father's peach pickers who he picked to be like a housekeeper, and for Scout it was Calpurnia who was their housekeeper. Neither Lily or Scout calls their father's Dad or Anything

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