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56d133a017492d1400aabc1d | To_Kill_a_Mockingbird | The strongest element of style noted by critics and reviewers is Lee's talent for narration, which in an early review in Time was called "tactile brilliance". Writing a decade later, another scholar noted, "Harper Lee has a remarkable gift of story-telling. Her art is visual, and with cinematographic fluidity and subtl... | What narrative technique does Lee use to combine the adult's perspective with the child's observations?? | {
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56d1900ee7d4791d00902065 | To_Kill_a_Mockingbird | Harper Lee has remained famously detached from interpreting the novel since the mid-1960s. However, she gave some insight into her themes when, in a rare letter to the editor, she wrote in response to the passionate reaction her book caused: "Surely it is plain to the simplest intelligence that To Kill a Mockingbird sp... | According to Lee, her book simply expressed a Christian code of honor and conduct inherit to whom? | {
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56d261f359d6e41400145f36 | To_Kill_a_Mockingbird | Tom Robinson is the chief example among several innocents destroyed carelessly or deliberately throughout the novel. However, scholar Christopher Metress connects the mockingbird to Boo Radley: "Instead of wanting to exploit Boo for her own fun (as she does in the beginning of the novel by putting on gothic plays about... | Who is the main example of an innocent destroyed in the novel? | {
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56d3958659d6e414001467c6 | To_Kill_a_Mockingbird | Not all reviewers were enthusiastic. Some lamented the use of poor white Southerners, and one-dimensional black victims, and Granville Hicks labeled the book "melodramatic and contrived". When the book was first released, Southern writer Flannery O'Connor commented, "I think for a child's book it does all right. It's i... | Which Southern writer deemed it a child's book? | {
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56d3988759d6e414001467e1 | To_Kill_a_Mockingbird | Native Alabamian Allen Barra sharply criticized Lee and the novel in The Wall Street Journal calling Atticus a "repository of cracker-barrel epigrams" and the novel represents a "sugar-coated myth" of Alabama history. Barra writes, "It's time to stop pretending that To Kill a Mockingbird is some kind of timeless classi... | Who criticized Lee in The Wall Street Journal? | {
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56cfee97234ae51400d9c104 | Solar_energy | Thermal mass is any material that can be used to store heat—heat from the Sun in the case of solar energy. Common thermal mass materials include stone, cement and water. Historically they have been used in arid climates or warm temperate regions to keep buildings cool by absorbing solar energy during the day and radiat... | What are typical thermal mass material? | {
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56cfee97234ae51400d9c106 | Solar_energy | Thermal mass is any material that can be used to store heat—heat from the Sun in the case of solar energy. Common thermal mass materials include stone, cement and water. Historically they have been used in arid climates or warm temperate regions to keep buildings cool by absorbing solar energy during the day and radiat... | What is a something that determines the size of thermal mass? | {
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