From part ii of the novel to kill a mockingbird, pick one paragraph in which the author uses semicolons and in 150-200 words, tell how they are used. (answers should mention that semicolons are either joining two closely connected main clauses, are joining two main clauses using a conjunctive adverb, are used to clarify a long list of phrases with internal punctuation, or are used with a coordinating conjunction because the sentence has lots of internal punctuation.)

To kill a Mockingbird is a novel published in 1960 by Harper Lee and takes place during three years (1933–35) of the Great Depression, in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama. It focuses on Jean Louise Finch (Scout), who  a six-year-old who lives with her older brother Jeremy their widowed father Atticus. The following excerpt was taken from the Chapter 12:

"With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable."

The semicolon is used because there is a preposition in the sentence, the word "without", which links two closely connected clauses. Also, prepositions are used when establishing a relationship between 2 clauses, like showed in the excerpt. The two clauses are syntactically independent but similar in their semantics. The semicolon gives an evidence of the two widely different perspectives, but they are both about a deep relationship: having or not having someone. It is worth mentioning that usually semicolons are used together with a conjunctive adverb or coordinating conjunction.

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one thousand and one nights, also called the arabian nights is a collection of middle eastern tales compiled in arabic during the islamic golden age, dated from the 8th to the 14th century. this collection was compiled of largely middle eastern and indian stories with an uncertain date and autorship whose tales such as aladdin, ali baba and sinbad the sailor -these ones were the most popular ones, the ones that have almost become part of western folklore.

as in much medieval european literature, the stories contained in this collection are set within a frame story. its scene is central asia, as known as "the islands or peninsulae of india and china", where king shahryar kills his wife after discovering her infidelities and as well as any other who betrayed him.   then, loathing all womankind, he marries and kills his new wife each day until no more candidates could have been found. his vizier had two daughters, scheherezade and dunyazad. the elder one -scheherezade- having devised a scheme to save herself and the others insisted that her father needed to give her in marriage to the king. each evening, she used to tell a story leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. the stories kept the king very interested, so eager to hear evey ending of each story, that he puts off her execution from day to day and finally he decided to give up with his plan. these stories are contained within the collection of 1001 nights, the bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is usually used for songs and riddles to express better the heightened emotion of them.