Who Is The Adult In To Kill A Mockingbird

Most authors in books write in a first person view or third person but not Harper Lee. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee writes in the most fascinating point of view, the knowing adult and the innocent child. Jean louise Finch also known as Scout is a young girl throughout the book. However, Harper Lee writes the book as if “older” Scout is telling her childhood story. Since Lee choose to write the book like this we are able to read two perspectives the Knowing adult and the innocent child. The maturing child’s bewilderment allows us to see the happiness of the racial problems and how people make the best of their situation. However, the knowing adult allows us to read about the sadness and how much everyone suffers in the South . Young curious Scout provides readers with a different perspective on the book, it lets us see that there is good in the south. The outlook on race changes from hateful to equal Scout says “Naw Jem I think there's one kind of folks. Folks” (lee 227). This child-like voice shows scout sees people not color. Scout’s circumstances opened her eyes however, she doesn't understand the separate lives they all have to live. For example, one day Scout gets the privilege to go to church with Calpurnia when she sees all the colored folks she thought to …show more content…
The all knowing narrative lays out the intense cruelty of the happenings in Maycomb County. Scout was thinking to herself, “Tom was dead the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.” Due to the color of this man's skin he now lies six feet under the ground still, cold, and dead. The odds of a black male winning a case against a white woman is un heard off, so even before anyone put one foot in the courtroom they had a winner. Treated poorly and discriminated is how they treat Tom, and Scout now knows that the South is full of prejudice. Another example of racial problems is