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A comparison between Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and Watson's Montana 1948, with particular reference to narrative structure, the use of authorial voice, and the social and political themes with which the novels deal. Bibliography lists 5 sources
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Harper Lees "To Kill a Mockingbird" and Larry Watsons "Montana 1948" have a number of elements in common. Both are written from the perspective of an adult looking back
on significant and traumatic events in their childhood; the events which form the major themes of the respective narratives are to do with justice, social morality, human rights and the
repression of minority groups; and both offer the reader a perspective on these concepts which is not necessarily the same as the perspective demonstrated by the characters themselves.
In "Mockingbird", the narrative is seen through the eyes of
Scout, a girl growing up in a small Southern town with her father and brother and a neighbour, Miss Maude, who is the female role model she relies upon in
the absence of her mother. Since the narrators voice is confined to a childs perspective, many of the events which are related are not explained or elaborated in adult terms,
even though the reader is able to "read between the lines" where Scout herself cannot. When she contrives to break up the ugly atmosphere of a potential lynch mob, all
that Scout understands is that she saw, and responded to, familiar faces in the crowd. We, however, are aware that it is this identifying of individuals, and reminding them of
that individuality, which serves to fracture and divide the mob mentality, and brings the men to their senses.
Similarly, when Scout is bewildered by the trial verdict after her father has conclusively proved Tom Robinsons innocence, we know - as she does not -
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