How Reliable Is The Narrator In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Have you ever thought what the things our narrator (Scout) is telling you are reliable or not. For those that read To Kill A Mockingbird, we all know that Scout is narrating her perspective of a six year old as an adult. Scout is one of our main characters and speaker for this book, telling you all about her life and everything that she can describe to us. The following information will explain to you why one of our main characters, Scout, isn’t a very reliable narrator. In the book we know that everything she experiences is her experience, not anyone else's. So we the audience or other people in the story, can’t go inside her head in order to know if it's true or not. Also it’s her side to the story, so it's seen by her view as a kid being

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