When Jem gives Miss Maudie his sympathies for the loss of her house, she says, "Always wanted a smaller house, Jem Finch. Gives me more yard. Just think, I’ll have more room for my azaleas now!"<span> She tells Jem and Scout that she'll be able to have a bigger yard which means more room for the plants she loves to tend. She also calls her old house a cow barn and says that she had thought of burning it does herself.
Miss Maudie's reaction to her house being burnt down furthers her likable character. Her character is one of the mother figures for Scout and Jem since their mother is gone. Throughout the book, she is able to look on the bright side of things and is more accepting of others than most of Maycomb.
Parallelism is a figure of speech in which two or more elements of a sentence (or series of sentences) have the same grammatical structure.
The lines "Fondly do we hope--fervently do we pray" and "With malice toward none; with charity for all" clearly show the repetition of similar grammatical constructions.
Tim O'Brien is the narrator of "Ambush," but the author (Tim O'Brien) does not actually have a daughter. How do you feel about this fact? It proves that the events in the story are not true. It makes the story more interesting.
