How Does Harper Lee Use Flashback Narration In To Kill A Mockingbird
Flashback Narration
A flashback narration is a creative tool used by authors to often give background or context to the current events in the story. Stories like, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee use flashback narration to show different perspectives between innocence and of age. Primary to the book, To Kill A Mockingbird, Scout begins telling the story of how Jeremy Finch (Jem) broke his arm and indicates that throughout the years they had sometimes discussed the events leading up to his incident and from this it indicates that Scout is retelling the story many years later as an adult. Even though the story is being told by an adult the perspective is still synonymous with that of a child, the young Scout. Multiple events occur between the time he broke his arm and the moment it happened, events that truly show Scout’s perspective then, rather than now when …show more content…
She's still learning and hasn't had enough experience to to think about discrimination. Her main influence is her father, who is a very moral man and has done everything in his power to keep Jem and Scout pure of racism. In chapter 9, Scout listens in to Atticus’ conversation with Uncle Jack about his Tom Robinson case then explains how he hopes Jem and Scout will take advice from him rather than town due to Maycomb’s “usual disease”, prejudice, against his pure heart that will help them more in the long run. Scout never found out how Atticus caught her listening in that night but she mentions that it was not until later that she realized Atticus wanted her to hear every word. This is a great representation of flashback narration, showing how she's more informed of what had happened now that she's more grown. Flashback narration creates an authenticity that is very attractive to readers and allows the adult version of Scout to inject more mature explanations when
A flashback narration is a creative tool used by authors to often give background or context to the current events in the story. Stories like, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee use flashback narration to show different perspectives between innocence and of age. Primary to the book, To Kill A Mockingbird, Scout begins telling the story of how Jeremy Finch (Jem) broke his arm and indicates that throughout the years they had sometimes discussed the events leading up to his incident and from this it indicates that Scout is retelling the story many years later as an adult. Even though the story is being told by an adult the perspective is still synonymous with that of a child, the young Scout. Multiple events occur between the time he broke his arm and the moment it happened, events that truly show Scout’s perspective then, rather than now when …show more content…
She's still learning and hasn't had enough experience to to think about discrimination. Her main influence is her father, who is a very moral man and has done everything in his power to keep Jem and Scout pure of racism. In chapter 9, Scout listens in to Atticus’ conversation with Uncle Jack about his Tom Robinson case then explains how he hopes Jem and Scout will take advice from him rather than town due to Maycomb’s “usual disease”, prejudice, against his pure heart that will help them more in the long run. Scout never found out how Atticus caught her listening in that night but she mentions that it was not until later that she realized Atticus wanted her to hear every word. This is a great representation of flashback narration, showing how she's more informed of what had happened now that she's more grown. Flashback narration creates an authenticity that is very attractive to readers and allows the adult version of Scout to inject more mature explanations when