To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee “How does using Scout as a narrator influence the readers’ understanding of the characters and themes in To Kill a Mockingbird?” Using Scout Finch as a narrator in the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” influences the reader’s understanding of the characters and themes of the book. This allows the readers to see through the eyes of an intelligent, amiable little girl who is shielded by innocence from the world of hatred and anger around her. Scout’s upbringing also
the narrative voice in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’. In ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, there are 3 narrative voices who are telling the story. A 6 year old girl named Scout, the same girl but as an adult named Jean Louise, and the author of the book who is Harper Lee. Each narrator tell the story differently, from their own point of view. Scout is telling the story in Hirst person, she uses ‘I’, ‘me’, ‘us’, and ‘we’ to help explain each situation. In page one of chapter 9, Scout says “Atticus had promised me
a meaningful message, these are all traits that make up Harper Lee’s book To Kill a Mockingbird. From this semester’s novels of Chaim Potok’s book The Chosen and To Kill a Mockingbird, I personally believe one clearly outshined the other. Evenly match, the two novels are critically acclaimed and highly regarded. Both of the novels having been produced into movies. Although one can clearly see that To Kill a Mockingbird undoubtedly shines above the other novel. Due To Harper Lee’s ingenious ideas
‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ was and still is today one of the most confronting and eye-opening novels and one of the best written novels. As this novel shows the life of the african americans around the 1930s in Macomb, Alabama, and the severity of how the african americans being treated then impacted on what the world was then and how the world is today, the narrative voices in which that were used in such a novel created a noticeable and strong impact on the world. In the mind of Harper Lee, the author
Huck is the narrator of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”. Huck is thirteen years old, and the son of the local drunk. He is often times forced to survive on his own, and has always been a bit of an outcast. Even though he is formally uneducated he is intelligent, thoughtful, and always comes to his own conclusions about important matters, even if they contradict society’s ideas. Jim is one of Miss Watson’s household slaves. Jim is intelligent, practical, superstitious, and sometimes
meaning behind the mockingbird? In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, we learn that “It is a sin to kill a mockingbird because mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy”. This means that they don’t do anything but good for others and yet, they face harm and prejudice. In the novel we are presented with many “mockingbirds” such as Boo Radley as he demonstrates what it means to be a mockingbird because of his innocence and how people take advantage of him. Scout Finch is another
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a fictional story that takes place in Maycomb, Alabama. The book relates to many controversial issues that are still major subjects today. Tom Robinson, a young male slave, is found guilty for raping a white woman, named Mayella Ewell. He is defended by a Atticus Finch. Atticus is white father and him being Tom Robinson's lawyer, it stirs up the issue of racism. Scout and Jem, Atticus’s kids, have an unusual relationship with their father, benefiting them not
to harming other people but cripple at the thought of injuring an animal. This theme is portrayed throughout our lives, even if we don’t pay close attention to it. Another instance of this idea is exemplified in Harper Lee’s classic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Rather than sugar coating the truth and refusing to hurt characters who did nothing to deserve the hardships thrust upon them, Lee instead exhibits this various times as the story progresses. One such time involves an innocent man who is
This comparing and contrasting essay with explore the benefits and downside to the film and novel To Kill a Mockingbird. In the novel Scout is the narrator which makes it a little difficult telling the story in first person. Scout as the narrator in the film would present her as being distracting, so she is there to set the mood for the film. With this, the viewers do not get a sense of Scout as first-person in the movie as they do in the book; they get a childlike personality as portrayed in
To Kill a Mockingbird: Movie vs. Novel Preferably, a novel and its film version can complement each other. However, novels can accomplish things that films cannot, and films can accomplish things that novels cannot. Also, film has limitations that a novel doesn’t have. To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee and was made into a film in 1962, which also received many awards. Although the film projects the main events of the story, it is different from the novel because some characters are not