As a reader, it is important to be aware of the impact of the narrative voice in a text. Discuss in relation to 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’
to identify the impact of narrative voice. In relation with the novel “To Kill A Mockingbird”, it can become confusing for the audience as there are in total three main voices which the narrative is told in. These voices consist of Scout (First-person, one of the main protagonists), Jean Louise (Scout when she is older, from the perspective of her future-self) and Harper Lee (the author of the novel). The story is told by Scout as an adult looking back. In different voices, ages and times through the
In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mocking Bird, the author’s choices are used to draw us as readers into the story and clearly show the underlying message of prejudice. The three techniques discussed in this essay will be: symbolism, narrative voice and foreshadowing One method that Harper Lee uses to enhance the readers knowledge of the underling message is symbolism. Though the title To Kill a Mocking Bird has very little to do with the story, Harper Lee has made it so it has symbolic weight. Throughout
“To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee reveals an aspect of a small fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama set in the 1940’s during the years of the Great Depression. The novel reflects the ideas of conscience, courage and conviction through the story of two young children Jem and Scout growing up with their unconventional father Atticus, a small town lawyer. The novel is concerned with a series of events and experiences from which Scout and Jem observe and evaluate a series of situations and valuable
Prize, Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, among others. Novels such as Kim by Rudyard Kipling, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee are classic novels that come to one’s mind when one thinks of the use of child-narrators. While reading for the purpose of this paper, one of the first observations was the apparent lack of research material on the subject of