Shelley's "Frankenstein" and Lee's "To Kill a Mocking Bird"

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This paper explains that Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" is well-crafted, using language that suits the mind of child. The author points out that, in contrast to Lee's style in "To Kill a Mocking Bird", Shelley has a more complex style of writing as demonstrated in her language use, sentence structure, and higher-level vocabulary. The paper shows that both Shelley and Lee make use of quotations; however, Lee's descriptions of scenes and the metaphors she uses indicate a skill that she exhibits to a greater extent in her book.

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"Harper Lee's descriptions in "To Kill a Mockingbird" are quite plain as compared to those of Shelley's. In her following words this fact is exemplified when she describes Maycomb as "an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square". The words that she has used here are direct and straightforward. They are easy to comprehend, even for school-aged children."

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