To kill a mockingbird

             Firstly ,"To Kill A Mockingbird".
             Title: "To Kill A mockingbird"
             Summary: The novel is about a young black man named Tom Robinson accused of raping a white woman in the small southern town of Maycomb ,during the Depression. Six-year-old Scout Finch and her brother Jem have spent the summer scheming to get a peek at the town bogeyman, Boo Radley. When their father Atticus Finch, a widower raising his children alone with the help of his black housekeeper, is called upon to defend the accused man, Scout and Jem find themselves caught up in events beyond their control and understanding and they have to tolerate a barrage of racial slurs and insults because of Atticus's role in the trial. Seen through the eyes of Scout, the trial and other events which surround it, take on a clarity that shows the horror and heroism that often is in a person's soul.
             In the end, Scout and Jem have blossomed into young people more like their father. Although they are still young, they have become accepting and tolerant of all people and share their fathers eye for looking deep into people before making any judgment about them.
             Technique: In displaying the concept of 'changing perspective', Harper Lee uses a first person retrospective narrative that immediately captures reader's attention. The story is told through Scout's eyes .This allows responder's to see how the process of change is working on her. At times the narrative stance of the novel prejudices the reader against different characters such as Boo Radley, but it also allows Scout to pass comment on them with the benefit of hindsight. This allows us to concentrate on Scouts perceptions of change and how those around her influence it. Harper Lee uses realistic events which have occurred and are such an important part of American hist
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