Examples Of Perspective In To Kill A Mockingbird

Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird, the themes of perspective and viewpoint are very evident and create a unique dimension to how the book can be considered. It gives the reader the ability to visually examine the book through different viewpoints and to have a different reading experience each time the book is read. Some of the very important reasons why perspective and viewpoint are so important towards To Kill a Mockingbird for many reasons, but a few of the most important include the narrator’s (Scout’s) outlook based on the fact that she is a young girl, the fact that black people are very mistreated, and do not feel they should be and the way that Boo Radley outlooks on life. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee wants one to comprehend

A very important and evident reason for her difference on perspective on life is her age. At the beginning of the book, Scout is aged 6, and even by the end, she is still only 9 years old. This gives her a different viewpoint on life because she sees things only as being fair, and not as laws. What is important to her is having the right thing done, instead of what is expected in society. The way that Scout is looked at within the novel simply because she is young is quite undermining to her, especially when her teacher, Miss Caroline, tells her “[you] tell him I 'll take over from her and try to undo the damage--Your father does not know how to teach." (Lee, ?) What Miss Caroline is referring to here is the fact that Scout is too young by some peoples’ definition to be so advanced at her age, and that she must become more like someone in every-day society. To go along with Scout’s viewpoint and the viewpoint others have on her because of her age, her harshness of judgement is much less harsh than most people’s would be. She judges people much less, like Tom Robinson, and in her mind everybody is equal. After Tom Robinson has been convicted of rape in his trial, Atticus says “it’s not fair for you and Jem, I know that, but sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are

Black people during the time period of To Kill a Mockingbird are very often looked at as a minority, and people who do not matter at all, kind of being treated like animals. The way that they are used as slaves and have a different section for almost everything one can think of (table, courthouse, etc.) is simply absurd. There is no respect for them in To Kill a Mockingbird, and no one takes a minute to go in their shoes and realize that they are humans just like any white person. Black people are so frowned upon in this period of time that “once you have a drop of Negro blood, that makes you all black.”(Lee, ?) From what is said here, it can be inferenced that being black is something that one would never want to be, and even being associated with them would destroy one 's status in society. An evident way that negroes are looked down upon as opposed to the way that Aunt Alexandra treats and refers to them. She gets mad at Atticus because “he 's turned out a nigger-lover [and] we 'll never be able to walk the streets of Maycomb agin. He 's ruinin ' the family, that 's what he 's doin '."(Lee, ?) When she is talking about Calpurnia, as well as her feelings for her, she is very misunderstanding and distasteful to