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An 8 page research paper that examines Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which offers an insightful and detailed look into life in a small Southern town in the 1930s. Lee shows the townspeople's strengths, weaknesses, foibles and biases through the eyes of the six-year-old Jean Louise Finch, who is known as "Scout." Because Scout reflects the world with a child's simplistic viewpoint, the reader receives a "whole cloth" version of the town's social structure, which includes views on social status, rank, genes, discrimination, cultural differences and personalities. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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shows the townspeoples strengths, weaknesses, foibles and biases through the eyes of the six-year-old Jean Louise Finch, who is known as "Scout." While Scout is an extremely intelligent child, she
is still only six-year-old and, therefore, perception of the world is limited. The way that adults act in her world, the small town of Maycomb, Alabama, is the "correct" way
for people to act. Because Scout reflects the world with a childs simplistic viewpoint, the reader receives a "whole cloth" version of the towns social structure, which includes views on
social status, rank, genes, discrimination, cultural differences and personalities. Scout does not always understand everything that she sees and describes (Lenhoff 20). Therefore, Lee employs an ingenious narrative device.
When the novel begins, it is Scout speaking, but it is Scout as an adult, looking back at events that occurred when she was a child (Lenhoff 20). By telling
the story as a flashback, Harper can offer both Scouts remembered perspective and the viewpoint that she has as an adult. This adds considerably depth to the novel. For example,
on Scouts first day of school, Harper uses her perspective as a child to discuss the teachers difficulties in sorting out the social structure among the students. With a childs
understanding, Scout obviously feels that all people are alike everywhere so Miss Caroline (the teacher) should automatically understand that the Cunningham family is poor and that is why Walter Cunningham
does not have either money for lunch or a lunch-pail. Scout rises "graciously" on Walters behalf: "Ah-Miss Caroline?...hes a Cunningham...I thought I had made things sufficiently clear. It was clear
to the rest of us" (Lee 20). It is through the innocent eyes of Scout that the attitudes and mores of this Southern town are reflected. As Scout learns about
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