What Is Scout's Point Of View In To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird.
Having a very young and innocent narrator vaguely disrupts the novel having such a deep and mature context. Having Scout, a child, retell serious events through her naïve mind, gives a very censored outlook. Scouts perspective on significant events gives readers a very truthful honest opinion on ways Scout grasps and understands the, very grown up, situations in which she witnesses. Also another advantage of having the novel from a child’s point of view is that as scout learns Maycombs ways so do we, preparing both the reader and Scout for the books serious events.
Scout is a very up front, honest narrator, and always shares her opinions and thoughts on the other characters. She has a very young attitude and settles arguments with violence, not knowing any better. You see everything from Scouts perspective, so certain things you hear and events she sees are only her opinion, the readers can identify Scout and experience her deepest, innermost thoughts and feelings. …show more content…
Having the novel cover extremely grave topics- examples racism, discrimination, rape- it is difficult to understand why Harper choose to write from a very young child’s point of view.
Considering half the events in which Scout witnesses she doesn’t fully understand, and seems to make herself feel a way in which she finds appropriate, the reader picks up on significant events faster. In the novel, as Scout rarely understands the full seriousness of situations and the way they will turn out there is a lot of presumptions to be made personally by readers. There is a lot of honesty, as well in the way Scout describes and speaks to other characters. Scouts opinion, half the time, isn’t her own as such, it’s the town’s influence and which she’s grown up surrounded by. Scout is quick to make judgment when it comes to other people living in the
town.
Seeing everything only from Scouts perspective makes the whole thing very contained in what you hear and see. As Scout is young, most things she encounters she is very oblivious to. She doesn’t quite get some of the emotions the other characters display and why. Her father has taught her to always have a positive mind, but when reading the novel you can clearly tell how much the discrimination affects the innocent mind. Scout is a massively strong character, both physically and mentally, the way she is always on the verge of adventure and never wants to be left out from games with her brother, or the way she stands up to defend her father against all the criticism he puts up with when he takes on Tom Robinsons case.
Scout a very fiery person, always defending someone or herself, she uses violence in a extremely childish way. When Scout’s father is accused of being a ‘nigger-lover’ Scout has no restraint to punch her cousin square in the face, even after being warned not to use her fist like that. Even though Scout is reckless she also is a very brave and sensitive person. She shows a lot of personal emotion to the readers as she grows up quickly, from the start when her teacher tells her off because she knows how to read already to the way she feels when her brother starts to grow up and doesn’t really need her the way he used to. Scout has very captivating personality that always ceases to amaze the way she handles the situations thrown her way.
Even though the novel is written from a child’s point of view it’s worth remembering that it’s actually her grown up self retelling the events from her childhood.
Choosing Scout as the narrator really does have a huge impact on the way the novel is received and understood, having it retold about the ways racism affected even the most innocent and corrupted the young is devastating and tells today how cruel society was in the past and how much things have slowly changed, for the better.
Having a very young and innocent narrator vaguely disrupts the novel having such a deep and mature context. Having Scout, a child, retell serious events through her naïve mind, gives a very censored outlook. Scouts perspective on significant events gives readers a very truthful honest opinion on ways Scout grasps and understands the, very grown up, situations in which she witnesses. Also another advantage of having the novel from a child’s point of view is that as scout learns Maycombs ways so do we, preparing both the reader and Scout for the books serious events.
Scout is a very up front, honest narrator, and always shares her opinions and thoughts on the other characters. She has a very young attitude and settles arguments with violence, not knowing any better. You see everything from Scouts perspective, so certain things you hear and events she sees are only her opinion, the readers can identify Scout and experience her deepest, innermost thoughts and feelings. …show more content…
Having the novel cover extremely grave topics- examples racism, discrimination, rape- it is difficult to understand why Harper choose to write from a very young child’s point of view.
Considering half the events in which Scout witnesses she doesn’t fully understand, and seems to make herself feel a way in which she finds appropriate, the reader picks up on significant events faster. In the novel, as Scout rarely understands the full seriousness of situations and the way they will turn out there is a lot of presumptions to be made personally by readers. There is a lot of honesty, as well in the way Scout describes and speaks to other characters. Scouts opinion, half the time, isn’t her own as such, it’s the town’s influence and which she’s grown up surrounded by. Scout is quick to make judgment when it comes to other people living in the
town.
Seeing everything only from Scouts perspective makes the whole thing very contained in what you hear and see. As Scout is young, most things she encounters she is very oblivious to. She doesn’t quite get some of the emotions the other characters display and why. Her father has taught her to always have a positive mind, but when reading the novel you can clearly tell how much the discrimination affects the innocent mind. Scout is a massively strong character, both physically and mentally, the way she is always on the verge of adventure and never wants to be left out from games with her brother, or the way she stands up to defend her father against all the criticism he puts up with when he takes on Tom Robinsons case.
Scout a very fiery person, always defending someone or herself, she uses violence in a extremely childish way. When Scout’s father is accused of being a ‘nigger-lover’ Scout has no restraint to punch her cousin square in the face, even after being warned not to use her fist like that. Even though Scout is reckless she also is a very brave and sensitive person. She shows a lot of personal emotion to the readers as she grows up quickly, from the start when her teacher tells her off because she knows how to read already to the way she feels when her brother starts to grow up and doesn’t really need her the way he used to. Scout has very captivating personality that always ceases to amaze the way she handles the situations thrown her way.
Even though the novel is written from a child’s point of view it’s worth remembering that it’s actually her grown up self retelling the events from her childhood.
Choosing Scout as the narrator really does have a huge impact on the way the novel is received and understood, having it retold about the ways racism affected even the most innocent and corrupted the young is devastating and tells today how cruel society was in the past and how much things have slowly changed, for the better.