Charles Baker Harris (Dill) “Next stop Maycomb Junction,” shouted the conductor. Everything went smoothly. Suddenly the whistles began to blow and the train hissed. Finally the gentle rumble of the tracks was all that could be heard. Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is a moving novel about prejudice, family, and a child's innocence. Every summer a boy, originally from Meridian, Mississippi, takes a train to the small town of Maycomb, Alabama. This guy is Charles Baker Harris, although most people just call him Dill. Through the pages of the classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the character Dill is shown to be an imaginative, solitary, and innocent character, as seen through many of his actions and ideas throughout this truly amazing and moral adventure. Throughout the novel Dill seems to be overflowing with imagination. Dill's role in this novel is to present the reader with a different view of the situation. Dill is an outsider and sees things differently than others; this gives a different perspective and shows the same event, just in a different perspective...
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