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"Miss Maudie's benevolence extended to Jem and Dill, whenever they paused in their pursuits: we reaped the benefits of a talent Miss Maudie had hitherto kept hidden from us. She made the best cakes in the neighborhood. When she was admitted into our confidence, every time she baked she made a big cake and three little one, and she would cal across the street... Our promptness was always rewarded" (Lee 57).

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We can empathize about her because she is nice and friendly to some people, like the Finch's, and talks bad with strictness to others in the town, like Miss Stephanie Crawford and the Radleys. She also acts like a mother figure with a gentleness factor to Scout, Jem, and Dill, unlike Calpurnia who has to be more strict at home.

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"Her speech was crisp for a Maycomb county inhabitant. She called us by all our names, and when she grinned, she revealed two minute gold prongs clipped to her eyeteeth... With a click of her tongue she thrust out her bridgework, a gesture of cordiality that cemented our friendship" (Lee 57).

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"I spent most of the remaining twilights that summer sitting with Miss Maudie Atkinson on her front porch " (Lee 57.

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"Foot washers [baptists] believe that pleasure's a sin. Did you know some of 'em came out of the woods ... and told me me and my flowers were going to hell?" "Your flowers too?" "Yes ma'am. They'd burn right with me" (Lee 59).

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" [ Miss Maudie] loved everything that grew in God's earth, even the weeds. With one exception. If she saw a blade of nut grass in her yard it was like the Second Battle of the Marne" (Lee 56).

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Miss Maudie doesn't believe that all pleasure is a sin. (She also likes too much to give it up)

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She and Scout spend time with each other when Jem and Dill neglect Scout

She is more gentle to Scout than Calpurnia is sometimes

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Miss Maudie is a baptist

She loves everything that God created on the earth except for nut grass

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She gives Scout poundcake to bring home for her family

She gives Jem, Scout, and Dill their own small cakes during the summer

She helps Scout better understand the Radley's ways

Lets them run around in her yard without yelling at them

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Lives across the street from the Finch's