Charles Baker Harris (Dill)

Permit me to introduce myself; i am Charles Baker Harris, known to my friends simply as Dill.

I did live with mother and stepfather; however I prefer to think of the friends and freedom of Maycomb, Alabama as my home- where I feel more important and more importantly wanted. In terms of my parents "They do get on a lot better without me, I cannot help them any"

As Francis says about me, "He hasn't got a home; he just gets passed around from relative to relative." During the year I travelled around various family members but I always spend my summer time living with my aunt, Miss Rachel Haverford, the Finches next door neighbour, in Maycomb.

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I once said "I think I'll be a clown when I get grown... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh" to which Jem replied "You got it backwards, Dill- Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them." "Well, I'm gonna be a new kind of clown.  I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks." (ch.22). this shows how importantly I value having fun in life- I  am not restricted or influenced by adult prejudices, preferring to make up my own mind on what I have witnessed.

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