I thought of all the summer evenings I'd spent sitting in the chairs under the trees beside the trailer, reading books that helped me escape Creek View, at least for a little while. Magical kingdoms, Russian love triangles, and the March sisters couldn't have been further away from the trailer park. Heather Demetrios
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In the novel, "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Jean Louise Finch, a young girl growing up in a small town in Alabama during the Great Depression, reads a lot of books that help her escape from her small town. However, she soon realizes that escaping is not as easy as she thought because all the places she has escaped to have different problems and issues. In other words, books have the power to give us a sense of freedom but they also have the power to pull us back into reality.

Source: Ill Meet You There

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