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To Kill A Mockingbird suggested addition[edit source]
Proposed: For the ending of ″To Kill A Mockingbird″ - pages 294 through 296, Harper Lee uses summations of situations found in one of her favorite childhood books - The Seckatary Hawkins series, ″The Gray Ghost″, by Robert Schulkers - to illustrate the principles of the pledge she made when she joined the Fair and Square Club as a child: “I shall always be fair and square, possessed with strength of character, honest with God and my friends, and in later life, a good citizen.”

Shields “Mockingbird” book for your convenience in comparing for yourself what I wrote in that regard. Shields' book, “Mockingbird" states Seckatary Hawkins books are Harper’s favorite books. See: FYI scans of those book pages are here: (http://tinyimg.io/i/vKPXAkz.jpg)? : http://tinyimg.io/i/vKPXAkz.jpg Seckatary (talk) 19:09, 31 October 2017 (UTC) For your ease of reference, the underlined parts of those Chas Shields Mockingbird pages are as follows: p46: “…  The Rover Boys, written by Edward Stratemeyer, was a favorite series, despite the stories’ ridiculously stilted dialogue – ‘Hello, you fellows!’ shouted a voice behind the Rover boys.  ‘Plotting mischief?’  At least they featured a girlfriend-sidekick named Nellie. A better choice, in Nelle's opinion, was the Seckatary Hawkins books by Robert Schulkers.”  The series is centered on a boys’ club on the Kentucky River, the plots usually revolve around a suspicious new boy, slandered by rumor or blamed without evidence, who later comes out on top by dint of his character. He seems to embody the club’s motto, ‘Fair and Square.’ ‘When we were too young to read, Brother, who was a voracious reader’, Nelle said, ‘would read many, many stories to us. Then we’d dramatize the stories in our own ways, and Truman would always provide the necessary comic relief to break up the melodrama. P47: “Later, when Nelle was old enough to read the Seckatary Hawkins series on her own, she wrote to the publisher requesting a club membership form. In her childish handwriting, she signed the pledge: ‘I shall always be fair and square, possessed with strength of character, honest with God and my friends, and in later life, a good citizen.’48 Sometimes her ideals were tested:…” P51: “…Most children probably would have begun by creating original fairy tales. But an invasion of fairies in down-and-out Monroeville seemed far-fetched. Anyway, the two friends’ favorite books, the Seckatary Hawkins series, were about the adventures of a boy’s club on the banks of the Kentucky River. That wasn’t much different from their home-town. Why couldn’t Monroeville – their neighborhood, in fact – do just as well for a setting? This would also dovetail with another of their favorite activities – people watching. They knew more about Doc Waters, the dentist, and his family across the street, for instance, than they ever would know about trolls and so on.”

And a scan of the last pages of To Kill A Mockingbird book can be viewed here http://tinyimg.io/i/4NDqEuk.jpg

All interested Wikipedia users, please comment. Seckatary (talk) 17:36, 4 November 2017 (UTC)