To Kill A Mockingbird Point Of View Analysis
1. The story has a first person point of view, with narration by Scout. She tells what she saw, heard, and felt at the time, as well as interjecting her retrospective considerations on what happened. This has charmed millions of readers because of the juxtaposition of her young and naïve self as opposed to her now experienced and cynical personality.
2. The plot introduced in the first paragraph was that Jem broke his elbow when he was almost thirteen. The story has a first person point of view, with narration by Scout. She tells what she saw, heard, and felt at the time, as well as interjecting her retrospective considerations on what happened. This has charmed millions of readers because of the juxtaposition of her young and naïve self as opposed to her now experienced and cynical personality. The story has a …show more content…
first person point of view, with narration by Scout. She tells what she saw, heard, and felt at the time, as well as interjecting her retrospective considerations on what happened. This has charmed millions of readers because of the juxtaposition of her young and naïve self as opposed to her now experienced and cynical personality. The story has a first person point of view, with narration by Scout. She tells what she saw, heard, and felt at the time, as well as interjecting her retrospective considerations on what happened. This has charmed millions of readers because of the juxtaposition of her young and naïve self as opposed to her now experienced and cynical personality.
3. Simon Finch was the first of their ancestors to come to America, and Atticus was one of his descendents. Jean Louise, known as Scout, and her brother Jeremy Atticus, called Jem by everyone else, along with their cook Calpurnia.
4. Dill is an inventive confident boy from Mississippi who came to live with his Aunt Rachel in Maycomb each summer, right next door to Scout and Jem. He is rather short, and is labeled a “curiosity” by Scout.
5. Boo Radley, unknown to his father, was in a gang of sorts when he was young, and once almost got arrested. After this incident, his father locked him up inside the house and wasn’t allowed out, never seen again for fifteen years. It was later said that he stabbed his father with scissors, and various other rumors have come about, all heard from Miss Stephanie Crawford, the “neighborhood scold”.
6.
a.
"Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings." (pg 3)
b. "Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself" (pg 6)
c. "nothing to buy and no money to buy it with…” (pg 5)
d. "Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town... There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy, and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County." (pg 5)
e. “The Radley Place was inhabited by an unknown entity the mere description of whom was enough to make us behave for days on end…” (pg 6)
7. Miss Caroline, Scout’s new teacher, is upset that Atticus has already taught her how to read, and tells her to stop doing it. This makes her fear losing her reading time, and makes this statement. This relates to life in general because people never realize the value of things until they are threatened to be, or are, taken away.
8. The students in Scout’s class have worked in the fields ever since they were born, supposedly, and almost all had failed the grade and were repeating it
again.
9. Scout learned that Miss Caroline did not know all of the family stereotypes of Maycomb yet, and explaining it to her made Scout sound accusing.
10. Burris Ewell is described as an extremely filthy human, and has “cooties”. He only comes to school on the first day, as the rest of his family does. He is similar to Walter Cunningham and Chuck Little because they are all very poor, and have to work a lot for their living. The difference though, is that Burris had a different upbringing, and does not act kind at all.
11. The simple trick that Atticus teaches Scout is that one should always consider situations from other perspectives. This relates to life because it is something one should do to make sure that a problem is solved fairly. Scout begins to learn that maybe she should try “climbing” into someone’s skin and walking around in it before judging them.
12. Scout’s first compromise is that she would go to school in exchange for continuing to read with Atticus in secret.
13. Atticus says that the Ewells made up an exclusive society, so sometimes the law could be bent for them.
14. Scout criticizes the education system of cheating her out of something and not accomplishing what the state had in mind for her.
15. I think that Boo Radley is leaving gifts for the children because of where they are found, and how Jem is looking at the Radley Place for a long time.
16. Scout wanted to quit playing the Radley game because she heard someone in the house laughing.
17. Miss Maudie was “a widow, a chameleon lady who worked in her flower beds in an old straw hat and men’s coveralls, but after her five o’clock bath she would appear on the porch and reign over the street in magisterial beauty.” (pg 42)
18. She means that people use the bible for their own agendas, making them dangerous, and worse than drunk. They forget that people should use God’s name in living a good life and helping others, but instead hurt others in the name of their God.
19. The statement that Scout is getting more like a girl everyday makes her finally go along with Jem’s plan. This idea of Scout coming of age yet not wanting to leave the company of her brother to go do more ladylike activities is a theme of the novel.
20. This shows that Jem values an open relationship with Atticus and that keeping secrets from him is not something Jem likes doing.
21. The condition of his pants frightened Jem because it seemed as though someone had been expecting him to return to the place to get them back.
22. The significance is that someone wanted to be friends with them, and was offering gifts as a means of contact of their friendship.
23. Mr. Nathan Radley fills the hole in the tree with cement because he says that the tree is dying. Jem cries about this because he understands that Boo’s brother has cut off his connection to the outside world and stopped his only chance at a friendship of sorts. We can infer that Boo Radley is kept in strict isolation by Mr. Nathan Radley, and that life in their household must be very miserable for Boo.
24. Atticus decides to keep the blanket incident a secret because he realizes that Boo does not wish to be known to the town or involved in the gossip, and respects that wish, as well as Boo Radley’s privacy.
25. Miss Maudie reacts to the destruction of her house by saying that she hated her old house and had wanted a bigger garden anyway. This shows that Miss Maudie has an optimistic character, and believes in making the best out of a bad situation.
26.
a. When Scout gets into a fight with Cecil Jacobs because he said that Atticus “defends niggers” and later asks Atticus about it, he tells her not to use that word because it is common, and to use the term Negro instead.
b. Atticus’ personal reasons for defending Tom Robinson were to uphold his sense of justice and respect from the town.
c. Atticus means that even if one is facing defeat, they shouldn’t go down without putting out their best efforts and standing up for their morals and ethics.
d. Scout thinks that if Atticus learns that she learned the curse words from school, she won’t have to go anymore; but Atticus doesn’t fall for her trick, and warns Uncle Jack to not mind what she says.
e. When Atticus says this, he means that Uncle Jack should give a small answer which would suffice, rather than lie to the child or give a drawn-out, fully-detailed description of it.
f. Atticus means to say that he does not understand why people don’t realize that Negroes are people too, and that there is more than one side to their case, as opposed to just being against them from the start without thinking.
27.
a. Alexandra is Atticus’ sister who lives at the Landing, who repeatedly makes suggestions to Atticus that something should be done about Scout’s unladylike behavior.
b. Francis is Aunt Alexandra’s spoiled grandson who constantly fights with Scout, causing her to want to take her rifle with her to the Landing to shoot him.
c. Jack is Atticus’ brother who is a doctor, but very good-natured, so that Jem and Scout loved spending time with him.
d. Jimmy is Aunt Alexandra’s husband, although they do not take much notice of each other, or Scout of him, leading to her description of him as being non-descript.
28. Scout’s list of Atticus’ faults are that he is old, feeble, doesn’t “do” anything, works in an office instead of somewhere that arouses admiration, wears glasses, doesn’t go hunting, play poker, go fishing, or smoke, and only reads.
29. It is a sin to kill a mockingbird because it is an innocent creature that does nothing but sing for us, and as Miss Maudie says, “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy.” (pg 90)
30. Atticus has many hidden talents, but didn’t want to reveal his skill to his children. This shows that he is humble, and has moved on to a new part of his life.
31. Tim Johnson symbolizes the town’s dependence upon Atticus’ protection from both the rabid animal and the worst evil within themselves, as they all shutter themselves inside in fear of the dog.
32. Atticus is insistent on Jem and Scout being polite to Mrs. Dubose because he respects her for possessing real courage. which Atticus describes as “when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.”
33. Atticus’ description of the phrase “nigger-lover” is that it is a term used by ignorant people as a common, ugly way to label someone. I agree with this because it is just used to put down someone with different ideas about superiority that oneself. I think that everyone is equal, so why insult someone for doing the right thing and standing up for someone else?
34. This fits with why he is defending Tom Robinson because he too has the “real courage” that he says she has. This is what Atticus describes as “when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.” This fits how Mrs. Dubose fights her addiction despite her imminent death and also how Atticus is still fighting this case, even though he knows he will lose.
2. The plot introduced in the first paragraph was that Jem broke his elbow when he was almost thirteen. The story has a first person point of view, with narration by Scout. She tells what she saw, heard, and felt at the time, as well as interjecting her retrospective considerations on what happened. This has charmed millions of readers because of the juxtaposition of her young and naïve self as opposed to her now experienced and cynical personality. The story has a …show more content…
first person point of view, with narration by Scout. She tells what she saw, heard, and felt at the time, as well as interjecting her retrospective considerations on what happened. This has charmed millions of readers because of the juxtaposition of her young and naïve self as opposed to her now experienced and cynical personality. The story has a first person point of view, with narration by Scout. She tells what she saw, heard, and felt at the time, as well as interjecting her retrospective considerations on what happened. This has charmed millions of readers because of the juxtaposition of her young and naïve self as opposed to her now experienced and cynical personality.
3. Simon Finch was the first of their ancestors to come to America, and Atticus was one of his descendents. Jean Louise, known as Scout, and her brother Jeremy Atticus, called Jem by everyone else, along with their cook Calpurnia.
4. Dill is an inventive confident boy from Mississippi who came to live with his Aunt Rachel in Maycomb each summer, right next door to Scout and Jem. He is rather short, and is labeled a “curiosity” by Scout.
5. Boo Radley, unknown to his father, was in a gang of sorts when he was young, and once almost got arrested. After this incident, his father locked him up inside the house and wasn’t allowed out, never seen again for fifteen years. It was later said that he stabbed his father with scissors, and various other rumors have come about, all heard from Miss Stephanie Crawford, the “neighborhood scold”.
6.
a.
"Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings." (pg 3)
b. "Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself" (pg 6)
c. "nothing to buy and no money to buy it with…” (pg 5)
d. "Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town... There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy, and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County." (pg 5)
e. “The Radley Place was inhabited by an unknown entity the mere description of whom was enough to make us behave for days on end…” (pg 6)
7. Miss Caroline, Scout’s new teacher, is upset that Atticus has already taught her how to read, and tells her to stop doing it. This makes her fear losing her reading time, and makes this statement. This relates to life in general because people never realize the value of things until they are threatened to be, or are, taken away.
8. The students in Scout’s class have worked in the fields ever since they were born, supposedly, and almost all had failed the grade and were repeating it
again.
9. Scout learned that Miss Caroline did not know all of the family stereotypes of Maycomb yet, and explaining it to her made Scout sound accusing.
10. Burris Ewell is described as an extremely filthy human, and has “cooties”. He only comes to school on the first day, as the rest of his family does. He is similar to Walter Cunningham and Chuck Little because they are all very poor, and have to work a lot for their living. The difference though, is that Burris had a different upbringing, and does not act kind at all.
11. The simple trick that Atticus teaches Scout is that one should always consider situations from other perspectives. This relates to life because it is something one should do to make sure that a problem is solved fairly. Scout begins to learn that maybe she should try “climbing” into someone’s skin and walking around in it before judging them.
12. Scout’s first compromise is that she would go to school in exchange for continuing to read with Atticus in secret.
13. Atticus says that the Ewells made up an exclusive society, so sometimes the law could be bent for them.
14. Scout criticizes the education system of cheating her out of something and not accomplishing what the state had in mind for her.
15. I think that Boo Radley is leaving gifts for the children because of where they are found, and how Jem is looking at the Radley Place for a long time.
16. Scout wanted to quit playing the Radley game because she heard someone in the house laughing.
17. Miss Maudie was “a widow, a chameleon lady who worked in her flower beds in an old straw hat and men’s coveralls, but after her five o’clock bath she would appear on the porch and reign over the street in magisterial beauty.” (pg 42)
18. She means that people use the bible for their own agendas, making them dangerous, and worse than drunk. They forget that people should use God’s name in living a good life and helping others, but instead hurt others in the name of their God.
19. The statement that Scout is getting more like a girl everyday makes her finally go along with Jem’s plan. This idea of Scout coming of age yet not wanting to leave the company of her brother to go do more ladylike activities is a theme of the novel.
20. This shows that Jem values an open relationship with Atticus and that keeping secrets from him is not something Jem likes doing.
21. The condition of his pants frightened Jem because it seemed as though someone had been expecting him to return to the place to get them back.
22. The significance is that someone wanted to be friends with them, and was offering gifts as a means of contact of their friendship.
23. Mr. Nathan Radley fills the hole in the tree with cement because he says that the tree is dying. Jem cries about this because he understands that Boo’s brother has cut off his connection to the outside world and stopped his only chance at a friendship of sorts. We can infer that Boo Radley is kept in strict isolation by Mr. Nathan Radley, and that life in their household must be very miserable for Boo.
24. Atticus decides to keep the blanket incident a secret because he realizes that Boo does not wish to be known to the town or involved in the gossip, and respects that wish, as well as Boo Radley’s privacy.
25. Miss Maudie reacts to the destruction of her house by saying that she hated her old house and had wanted a bigger garden anyway. This shows that Miss Maudie has an optimistic character, and believes in making the best out of a bad situation.
26.
a. When Scout gets into a fight with Cecil Jacobs because he said that Atticus “defends niggers” and later asks Atticus about it, he tells her not to use that word because it is common, and to use the term Negro instead.
b. Atticus’ personal reasons for defending Tom Robinson were to uphold his sense of justice and respect from the town.
c. Atticus means that even if one is facing defeat, they shouldn’t go down without putting out their best efforts and standing up for their morals and ethics.
d. Scout thinks that if Atticus learns that she learned the curse words from school, she won’t have to go anymore; but Atticus doesn’t fall for her trick, and warns Uncle Jack to not mind what she says.
e. When Atticus says this, he means that Uncle Jack should give a small answer which would suffice, rather than lie to the child or give a drawn-out, fully-detailed description of it.
f. Atticus means to say that he does not understand why people don’t realize that Negroes are people too, and that there is more than one side to their case, as opposed to just being against them from the start without thinking.
27.
a. Alexandra is Atticus’ sister who lives at the Landing, who repeatedly makes suggestions to Atticus that something should be done about Scout’s unladylike behavior.
b. Francis is Aunt Alexandra’s spoiled grandson who constantly fights with Scout, causing her to want to take her rifle with her to the Landing to shoot him.
c. Jack is Atticus’ brother who is a doctor, but very good-natured, so that Jem and Scout loved spending time with him.
d. Jimmy is Aunt Alexandra’s husband, although they do not take much notice of each other, or Scout of him, leading to her description of him as being non-descript.
28. Scout’s list of Atticus’ faults are that he is old, feeble, doesn’t “do” anything, works in an office instead of somewhere that arouses admiration, wears glasses, doesn’t go hunting, play poker, go fishing, or smoke, and only reads.
29. It is a sin to kill a mockingbird because it is an innocent creature that does nothing but sing for us, and as Miss Maudie says, “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy.” (pg 90)
30. Atticus has many hidden talents, but didn’t want to reveal his skill to his children. This shows that he is humble, and has moved on to a new part of his life.
31. Tim Johnson symbolizes the town’s dependence upon Atticus’ protection from both the rabid animal and the worst evil within themselves, as they all shutter themselves inside in fear of the dog.
32. Atticus is insistent on Jem and Scout being polite to Mrs. Dubose because he respects her for possessing real courage. which Atticus describes as “when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.”
33. Atticus’ description of the phrase “nigger-lover” is that it is a term used by ignorant people as a common, ugly way to label someone. I agree with this because it is just used to put down someone with different ideas about superiority that oneself. I think that everyone is equal, so why insult someone for doing the right thing and standing up for someone else?
34. This fits with why he is defending Tom Robinson because he too has the “real courage” that he says she has. This is what Atticus describes as “when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.” This fits how Mrs. Dubose fights her addiction despite her imminent death and also how Atticus is still fighting this case, even though he knows he will lose.