Explain how Harper Lee's using Scout as the narrator affects our understanding of the events
in To Kill A Mockingbird.
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Harper Lee's using of Scout as the narrator affects the understanding of the story because, just like in A Light in the Forest, we wouldn't get the details and feelings of the main character. This is very important for this book because Scout is also the main character and this helps us get more information about other secondary characters, because she always describes them in some way either it is by theirphysical characteristics or how she and Jem think that person is in the inside. If the story were told by Jem, for example, it would go different because he's bigger and he understands things more that Scout does.
The fact that Scout is the narrator affects our understanding of the events because it is from Scout’s point of view, and she tells her opinions. From her point of view, the opinions in the story are more accurate because Scout is the main character, and she understands herself more than anyone else. Some of her observations and memories might be inaccurate, though. I am sure that Scout could not have had remembered all of the details in the events of her childhood after so many years. Many things are probably made up or vague. If someone older such as Atticus or even Jem were telling it, the details might have been more accurate.
Harper Lee’s using Scout as the narrator affects our understanding of the events because Scout is a little girl and her vocabulary and her understandings are easier for us to understand the things happening in the book. It is different because it really depends on the age you are. Let’s say if you are still a little kid, it would be completely different of something written by a teenager. It would be completely different because a teenager would write the stuff with much more details than a little girl would write. They also use different vocabulary and it would be a different to understand the ideas on the story. For example, if Atticus was writing this story, I think that it would be much more difficult for us to comprehend the things of what is happening. It would be on a higher level because Atticus is all grown up (adult) and he thinks of things differently and much more detailed than a teenager would think.
Harper Lee wrote the story using Scout as the narrator. This means that the story is based on Scout’s point of view, and it is told by Scout experiencing the situations. We think about Scout’s feeling first instead of thinking about the reality. For example, Scout doesn’t like Aunt Alexandra much because she scolds Scout for not acting like a lady. Therefore, it is easier for us to think that Aunt Alexandra is the ‘mean’ character. When Scout faces some evil and grows up, we will be able to notice the change of Scout’s thoughts. Scout is yet immature and can be called a fledgling. Differing from Scout, Jem is more mature and he is facing evil and growing up. Atticus is already a grown up, and he is the most realistic character. The story would have a different feeling if the narrator was someone else.
When Harper Lee use Scout as the narrator the point of view of the story is a little girls. So every time that Scout do not understand something she tries to tell us what is going on but maybe she is wrong. As we keep reading on, we are going to find out that Scout is growing so then she is going to have another point of view.
Harper Lee is using Scout as the narrator, because he wants the readers to read the story from a little girls point of view. When you use a child’s point of view, it changes the story very much. This is because a child doesn’t understand most things adults do yet. And in this story, most things that Atticus as well as the other adults do, are not understood by Scout. The author also uses Scout as the narrator, because since she is the main character she is going to be describing everything exactly as she sees it.
Having Harper Lee as the narrator helps the story with it's flow. And you get to understand it more. For example, Harper Lee is pretending to be Scout, but an older form, telling it herself to other people in a book makes everything more detailed and exciting. If there was no narrator it would be all like "And as she walked over to the chicken, it ran away." The story would have no dialogue. Well, maybe it would, but there would be no one to tell how the person felt. For example, when something happens to Scout she tells us how she felt, or describes the situation enough for us to picture so well that it seems that we were actually there in the scene. Having a narrator makes the book more detailed and full of emotion.
Harper Lee's using Scout as the narrator of the book affects the understanding. Scout and the other characters have different view points. It would be hard for her to understand events and reasons why they occur. Scout is only a girl, who is not old enough to understand. Since she is only a child, it would be obvious for her that she would accept things that adults agree on. She tells what occurs in her life in a different way from other characters, and what she thinks is right and wrong. Scout is expressing what she feels and thinks, which might be different from others. However, Scout's viewpoint might change, as well as her perspective of the world.
Harper Lee using Scout as the narrator affects the story a lot. Scout is just a child and she see's the things differently than how we see it. She has more imaginacion than Jem, and Dill. Another point of view is that she is the main character and that means that we get to hear more details the if it where told by a secondary character. Now if the story was told by Jem it would all change because Jem is older and he see's things fromm another point of view than the one from Scout.
Harper Lee using Scout as the narrator effects our understanding of the events by making us see it from a person who is outsider yet she is a person who recieves a lot of information. She also questions a lot because she is a young child which really helps the reader because when there is something that is vague to the reader, then it appears more clear to the reader because Scout is curious to ask. Scout is also growing up in the South and has many complaints, which gives the reader an idea of the setting.
Well, for one thing Scout seems to have a good heart. I answer this question after I finished the book so I can say a bit more about it. I can, for example, say that Scout is still in the stage of learning and that she has a harder life than the rest of the people due to the fact that her father defends an African-American and that he is not descriminating against other races. This causes Scout to grow up following her fathers example. She learns a lot and has a different points of view than if we were to take a regular white person that descriminates against black people. This gives us a bit more perspective since she isn't like the rest of the people and still we understand the point of view of the rest since other people express their thoughts about something while not being respectfull.
By the looks of it, Scout's understanding and opinion of things is far different from those of the older people. For instance, Scout is now looking at Jem as being a bossy kid. However, Calpurnia and Atticus look at it as being a change in life for Jem. Scout however simply looks at Jem like the big showoff that thinks of nothing but himself. If the Story were to be told by Atticus, it would be far more clear in what is going on. We would have a clearer view of the main points in the story and a bigger view of the gravity of the situation
Since Scout, is still a little girl, she does not say all details. At sometimes she might, but she only does in things that might not seem interesting to us. The story is being told in her point of view, her opinnions, what she sees, what she hears, and what Jem tells her. This affects our understanding because, it is being told in a "kids" point of view, which includes very little detail, and saying things that do not matter.
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