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Post by neayvatencza on Aug 15, 2016 4:10:46 GMT
In Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mockingbird", Lee portrays Scout as being a young child, however, the sophistication of her vocabulary is that of an adult. Why might that be? I believe that Scout is looking back at the events and telling her story as an adult, resulting in the mature and sophisticated wording that is seen throughout the novel. |
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Post by tsharman on Aug 16, 2016 14:45:03 GMT
To Kill a Mockingbird is clearly written from the perspective of an adult Scout. We see this at the beginning of the book, when Scout says about the events related in To Kill a Mockingbird that "enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on ... the event's leading to [Jem's] accident" (Lee 1). In fact, Scout says that "we were at all times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when [his diction] was beyond our understanding," showing that she was occasionally unable to understand the sophisticated dialogue of the adults (Lee 42).
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