To Kill A Mockingbird Narrative Voice

Each person has their own exclusive voice. In chapter three of To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Scout and Walter develop a quarrel between each other, but Jem, Scout's older brother, ends their fight and instead befriends Walter. This essay is more about Scout's voice and how it shows how she is curious and emotional. Through the use of diction, imagery, and syntax, the narrator shows her voice.

Within the novel "To Kill A Mockingbird" written by Harper Lee, different characters changed immensely throughout the course of the story. One of these characters, Jean Louise Finch or Scout showed some of the most important and noticeable change throughout the read. Scout was the younger sister of the two siblings and changed significantly between the beginning of the novel, throughout the middle, and to the end. As time went on, Scout became substantially more mature and aware of what truly was occurring within the society and the time period surrounding her. The Novel "To Kill A Mockingbird" showed how Scout changed, matured and acted throughout the different stages of the book and her childhood.

A story about Jean Louise Finch Scout has a short temper, naive, and girly at times. Scout is the main character and narrator of the book “To Kill a Mockingbird.” She is six years to nine years old at the time, but is telling the story as an adult. People call her Scout but her real name is Jean Louise Finch.

The book To Kill a Mockingbird revolves around a young girl, Scout Finch, and her experiences when her father, Atticus, is given a job of defending a black man accused of raping a white woman during the 1930’s. Harper Lee uses different techniques to develop a clear argument in Atticus’ closing remarks. Lee utilizes two modes of persuasion, pathos and ethos.

Jean Finch, also known as Scout, is the main character in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Scout is a young girl living in a small town, Maycomb, Alabama. Throughout the story you witness Scout develop into a curious, strong, and understanding character. Jean is close to her brother Jem, father Atticus, and Cook Calpurnia. The Finch family lost their mother while the children were young and the absence of a mother figure is prominent in Jean. In the first chapters, the reader sees Jean playing with boys more than girls and having more interest on what is happening outside not what Calpurnia is doing in the kitchen. From the beginning, it is portrayed that Scout is more intelligent than the rest of the kids in her class. Due to the way she speaks and carries herself. The children in Maycomb often do not know how to read and write until their first year of school. However, Scout knows how to do this task better than some kids in the higher grades. Therefore, it causes trouble with the students and most importantly her teacher. A large conflict comes forth with Jean’s teacher, causing Jean to believe that she does not need to exceed the reading goals for

Angie Lopez Mrs. Milon English I (H) 18 August 2014 To Kill a Mockingbird Critical Thinking Questions- Part One Chapter 1 1. The narrator of the novel is Jean Louise, aka, Scout, who is a 5 year-old little girl. The type of narration that is used is in first person. 2.

On August 9, 2014,a young man by the name of Michael Brown was shot and killed by a police officer. It is little known why the shooting occurred, but the boy was unarmed.This could be one of many cases of modern day racism and segregation. In 1930, “even after the abolishment of slavery in 1865, blacks were still almost powerless(BBC 2)”.Blacks were heavily segregated and had almost no rights.Many cases of segregation in the 1930s caused a lot of current day racial tension in the united states.

In the 1930s Southern Gothic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses the child and adult perspectives of the narrator to tell the story from the perspective of an innocent child, then adding on to it using the adult perspective, which allows the readers to have a better understanding of events in the story. It allows the narrator to tell the story as they experienced it as a child, which gives the perspective of how they feel about the events. The child’s point of view also makes the novel fit for an older audience, because they most likely understand mature topics that the child narrator does not. Using the two perspectives of the main character, Lee allows the readers to relate to and comprehend the novel better.

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a multi-faceted novel which explores the principles and morals of people in the South during the 1930s. Mockingbirds are symbolic of the people that society abuse. Lee narrates the events of the novel using Scout’s voice and uses this technique to add emotional context and develop themes. Themes of racial and classist prejudice are developed by Lee to challenge the reader. These techniques are all powerful ways to alter the views of the reader.

Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is filled to the brim with thinkers. Characters like Atticus, Scout and Mr. Raymond. These people pull their own brains together and think about the events of the world around them. Characters like these make a great impact within the fiction novel and outside it; inside it by provoking the thought of fictional characters, and outside it by provoking the thought of real people. Atticus is a single father of two young children; in their eyes he has an answer to anything and a solution to every problem.

Jean Louise ‘Scout’ Finch is the main character in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and is the narrator of the story. She starts the novel at the age of six, and over the course of the novel, grows to be nine. Racism affects Scout throughout the story mainly because of her father, Atticus Finch, being involved with defending a black man in court that was accused of raping a white woman. Scout also resides in a small Alabama town called Maycomb. This also leads to much prejudice throughout the book.

To Kill A Mockingbird is an acclaimed novel that provides a meritorious exploration on the subject of human nature and distinctively regards several themes with great importance. Discussed through recollections from a child’s perspective, the novel provides a variety of portrayals and wholehearted messages, creating an illustration with a consequential meaning once the indications are interpreted. It is also worthwhile to acknowledge the themes that coexist within the book that are introduced through the character’s life stories. The title itself carries a great deal of symbolic weight in the novel. It is how the naturally flawed characters influence and are influenced by the several themes, that assemble the novel into edifying the reader

In the novel, Jean Louise Finch is six years old and telling everything as it happens and an older Scout only comes into the book when something might need a bit of explaining, however, the movie only has an adult narration. Examples from the book and

Imagine you are a lawyer tasked with an impossible case, and everybody in your community is against you, but still there is a shred of hope you cling to. What might that be you ask? That to which you cling are your morals. In To Kill a Mockingbird Atticus Finch had been given the Tom Robinson case, where a black man was convicted of raping a white woman. As a single father of two children, he continues to reinforce his values throughout the trial and during his daunting task of raising his children. In To Kill A Mockingbird what Harper Lee suggests about the nature of morals is that you should try to stand up for what you believe in even if people oppose or reject your ideals. Even when faced with an insurmountable opposition you should stand up for your morals because in the end if your don't follow your beliefs you are just contributing to the problem. We should try to create a voice for what we believe in and impress that upon the next generation so they can continue to exercise their beliefs to make the world a better place.

The narrator of “To Kill A Mockingbird” is Scout Finch and as we read the book, we can see