It is the second one; <span>The white whale sank the Captain's boat.
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In "To Kill a Mockingbird" the story is told by Scout, the curious, tomboyish main character in the book.
I think a memo is a pronoun
A wide flat field is "finer” than rugged terrain for it can be tilled easily to produce wheat and so represents good white bread. A small thatched cottage, which a modern viewer might consider pretty, will be considered unattractive by an Elizabethan traveler, for cottagers are generally poor
