Point Of View In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

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Atticus is written in third person limited. The reader is able to know what
Atticus thinks inside of his head and his feelings for Scott. However through the dialogue, the reader is able to interpret what Scott is feeling at a certain moment. Other than Atticus and Scott, the reader has no clue what is going on inside the heads of the other characters. After Atticus finds Scott, the point of view changes. The point of view becomes first person, story is now told in Scott’s perspective. The story goes back prior to the death of “Scott”. Scott reveals what events occurred that ultimately lead to him faking his own death(killing the finance and then his doppelganger being murdered). The shift of point of view is crucial because it helps the reader

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