Point Of View In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

Jem and Scout, throughout “To Kill A Mockingbird,” learn to consider things from other people’s perspectives. Atticus, Jem and Scout’s father, says “you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb into his skin and walk around in” (Lee 39). They learn this through experiences with their neighbor Boo Radley as they mature beyond their years. At the beginning of the novel, Jem and Scout make fun of Boo and assume that all of the rumors going around about him are true. However, later on in the story the children grow an admiration for Boo and learn to understand him. As they matured, Jem and Scout naturally learned many life lessons of appreciation, respect, and courage

Aibileen, a housemaid, was brought up at this time. Living in Mississippi in the 1960s couldn't be much worse for Aibileen, she lived in the the outskirts of jackson with all of the black community in low quality housing, she lost her son to wreckless white people that didn’t give a damn and she got paid just under $1 an hour to work for the white privileged. Growing up Aibileen knew she would be a maid. This is proven through dialog when she says “my Mama was was a maid, and my Gran’mama was a house slave. The mournful tone she speaks with displays her desire to be more than a black dot on a white wall, meaning she did not want to be another black maid living among her supposed white superiors.

Throughout the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Jem was influenced by Tom Robinson's Trial and Atticus’s definition of courage. Atticus’s definition of courage changed the way Jem thought about Mrs. Dubose. For example, “I wanted you to know what real courage is... It’s when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyways and you see it through no matter,” (Lee 149). In this quote, Atticus describes what courage, he states that courage is doing something even though you’ll know that you will fail. Another example is on page 149, “He picked up the Camellia, and when I went off to bed, I saw him fingering the wide petals,” (Lee). This is to say that Jem was now playing with the Camellia that Mrs. Dubose had left for him.

The world is hard to see from another perspective than just our own. People see and feel what happens in their lives. When Scout sees the world, she sees it in black or white. She has never been taught to look at the world from a grey perspective. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout is taught many lessons, and she learns much about the world outside of her own.

Point-of-View – is the perspective or mode in which a story is being told. The individual narrating the story is someone the author of the story invents, so that he or she will tell the story for the ones reading it.

redujice is not something we are born with; it is something that we grow to learn from who and what surrounds us, things that help to form our identity. Prejudice is an integral theme in Harper Lee’s, To Kill A Mockingbird. Prejudice is evident throughout the novel, not just in the appalling racism but also through, prejudice against different sexual orientations, gender constructs and feminism. Society had certain constructs that had to be met. Throughout To Kill A Mockingbird, Lee breaks the bounds to overcome barriers, and challenge social constructs.

Perspective, in my opinion, is one of the major ongoing themes in the book. Atticus tells Scout that you need to consider the other person’s perspective before judging. Scout stands on Boo’s porch thinking about all of the events and incidents that have happened from Boo’s point of view. This reveals that Scout has finally learned the way people are perceived and who they are really. A person is able to tell right from wrong if they “step into their skin.”

In American novelist Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, the protagonist, Scout’s innocence keeps her from seeing how the real world truly is. Her lack of awareness gets her into trouble; she tries to defend a classmate by saying he cannot afford anything because of he does not have anything, which gets her punished. Scout’s ignorance is due to her age and bringing up and her thinking is not yet stricken with the idea of social class; so she is not fully alert to what social status is suppose to be. Just like Scout, a young girl named Alice is not aware of what is the world is really like. Alice’s innocence leads her to discover thoughts about herself and the world around her. In Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, the author uses

Point of view is an aspect of writing that helps the reader understand the view of a character or characters. Point of view is broken down into different types. You have first person, second person and third person. However, third person gets broken down even more into third person limited, objective, and omniscient. These point of views are fairly easy to recognize in pieces of literature mainly based on the word choice.

Perspective plays a tremendous role in allowing the readers to understand racism, and prejudice as we view things from the viewpoint of a young girl raised in a white family with a black cook. Scout opinions of black people change from being enraged by the phrase “nigger lover”, to being a supporter of a black man on trial for rape. “Francis: He’s nothin’ but a nigger-lover. Scout: He is not! I don’t know what you’re talking about, but you better cut it out this red hot minute.” (pg. 110). Scout considered this an unacceptable phrase, however, as the novel progresses she learns more about black people and accepts them. Due to the long relationship between white and black people regarding slavery, white people have not outgrown the mindset that

The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is written in first person point of view. The narrator is the main character Jean Louise Finch or Scout. One might understand how this point of view adds to the story and how it would have been different if another point of view had been used. The following paragraphs will achieve the objectives stated above.

Literary point of view is the perspective from which the story is told and it plays a crucial role in any story because it decides both how the story and its characters are presented. Point of view also controls how much the audience sees and knows, thus regulating the pace of the story.

The book "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a story of life in an Alabama town in the 30's. The narrator, Jean Louise Finch, or Scout, is writing of a time when she was young, and the book is in part the record of a childhood, believed to be Harper Lee’s, the author of the book..

The point of view defines a fundamental aspect of the story, which is the perspective of the narrator. According to the perspective of the narrator other factors will consequently be given, such as the style, the language employed, and the theme of the story. Another principal point that depends on the perspective of the narrator is the objectivity in which the events and

Point of View: For the most part, the point of view is altered for each chapter. However, the book is mostly in Willow Chance’s point of view. Since the point of view alters, different character’s insights are revealed and the reader can have a better understanding of how people feel about the conflicts and other events in the novel.