Composer's Craft Novels in Order to Confront the Key Issues of Their Own Context. Discuss How the Authors of to Kill a Mockingbird and Montana 1948 Achieve This Purpose.
Authors compose novels in order to highlight and confront the significant issues of their own context. Racial prejudice and the necessity of achieving justice are two key issues highlighted in To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee and also Montana 1948 by Larry Watson. Lee writes in the 1960s about the 1930s, and Watson writes in the 1990s about the 1940s demonstrating a time when people were persecuted for their race, gender, religion and education. These novels are crafted to provide insight of the issues experienced in society and to enlighten society’s current perceptions. Both authors desire to educate responders about the destructive nature of prejudice that disenfranchised individuals experienced and that the corrupt actions of empowered individuals can lead to the detriment of failing to achieve justice. Through narrative voice, contextual features and character development, Lee and Watson achieve this purpose of challenging responders to confront the fundamental issues that society has disregarded.
In response to the American historical context of the 1930s, To Kill A Mockingbird demonstrates the irrationality of societal attitudes society’s through a modal voice and enlightens the responders’ viewpoint. In Atticus’s culminating statement at the trial, characterization and moral voice is displayed to enforce the power and worth of the viewpoint presented. In his direct speech, “the evil assumption – that all Negroes lie, that all Negroes are basically immoral beings, that all Negro men are not to be trusted around our women…” Atticus delivers the prevalent assumption against disenfranchised individuals of the 1930s. Here, repetition, substantiated by italics, emphasizes his forceful tone in regards to the word ‘all’. By providing a high modal voice, Lee challenges responders to realize that ‘all’ used in this situation is fallacious. While disenfranchised individuals in both texts suffer prejudice, in To Kill A Mockingbird the accused is convicted although
In response to the American historical context of the 1930s, To Kill A Mockingbird demonstrates the irrationality of societal attitudes society’s through a modal voice and enlightens the responders’ viewpoint. In Atticus’s culminating statement at the trial, characterization and moral voice is displayed to enforce the power and worth of the viewpoint presented. In his direct speech, “the evil assumption – that all Negroes lie, that all Negroes are basically immoral beings, that all Negro men are not to be trusted around our women…” Atticus delivers the prevalent assumption against disenfranchised individuals of the 1930s. Here, repetition, substantiated by italics, emphasizes his forceful tone in regards to the word ‘all’. By providing a high modal voice, Lee challenges responders to realize that ‘all’ used in this situation is fallacious. While disenfranchised individuals in both texts suffer prejudice, in To Kill A Mockingbird the accused is convicted although