In any text it is important to understand what effect the narrative voice has on it’s readers. This skill is vital to have in order the truly understand the text “To Kill a Mockingbird” because there are more than one narrative voices through out the book. In fact many believe there are three different narrative voices through out the text. This means that it is very important to have a good understanding of the impact of a narrative voice and how it changes the reader’s perception of certain character’s.
The first and main narrator in the text is “Jean Louise Finch” or as nicknamed “Scout”. She gives the audience a view of what it’s like to live as a child around the time of the civil rights movement in America. However the vocabulary used from Scout is far to great for a child under the age of 10, this is because Harper Lee wrote it as if Scout was retelling the story when she was at a older age. It is important to know that Scout is a narrator because she has a bias towards to certain characters, especially ‘Boo Radley’. In the eyes of scout he is seen as psychotic killer who will hurt you just …show more content…
We know this because we as the readers get to here a glimpse of the story told from Boo Radley’s point of view. Because Boo Radley is the one of the narrative voices it makes it easy to get his point across. Boo Radley talks in a tone that lets the readers know that he doesn’t like being isolated from the outside world. He just wants to be a normal kid. To pick this up you need to read closely because it is very subtle. Picking this up is very important because it gives the readers a different side of the story and a different image of Boo Radley’s personality. If Boo Radley did not have a narrative voice the audience would just believe that he was psychotic and they wouldn’t understand who Boo Radley really is. This means that the differential narrative voices are extremely important to the text “To Kill a
The first and main narrator in the text is “Jean Louise Finch” or as nicknamed “Scout”. She gives the audience a view of what it’s like to live as a child around the time of the civil rights movement in America. However the vocabulary used from Scout is far to great for a child under the age of 10, this is because Harper Lee wrote it as if Scout was retelling the story when she was at a older age. It is important to know that Scout is a narrator because she has a bias towards to certain characters, especially ‘Boo Radley’. In the eyes of scout he is seen as psychotic killer who will hurt you just …show more content…
We know this because we as the readers get to here a glimpse of the story told from Boo Radley’s point of view. Because Boo Radley is the one of the narrative voices it makes it easy to get his point across. Boo Radley talks in a tone that lets the readers know that he doesn’t like being isolated from the outside world. He just wants to be a normal kid. To pick this up you need to read closely because it is very subtle. Picking this up is very important because it gives the readers a different side of the story and a different image of Boo Radley’s personality. If Boo Radley did not have a narrative voice the audience would just believe that he was psychotic and they wouldn’t understand who Boo Radley really is. This means that the differential narrative voices are extremely important to the text “To Kill a