In this book, Jem and Scout get attacked by a racist man named Bob Ewell, and then a man who has been watching the kids for a long time (Boo Radley) saves them. The book to kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee is told through the eyes of one of the main characters Scout, and she shows the hardships of living in that time when people were treated differently based on their appearance. They chose to write through a child’s eyes because kids can have many different experiences and aspects of life.
The story is told through Scout’s eyes because she had a lot of traumatizing experiences in her childhood. In the story, Scout said, “He slowly squeezed the breath out of me,”(lee 301). This quote supports my claim because she was being choked out and no person should have to go through that especially a little girl of her age, so that is why I think that this experience at such a young age could make it to where she will never be able to forget it and that can haunt her whole life. I think that this paragraph is very important because Scout had to go through a lot of stuff in her childhood.
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This is explained well in this quote “Mayella Ewell is the loneliest person even more lonely than Boo Radley,”(lee 218). This quote matters because Scout is thinking in a way that nobody is thinking and this is why she was pushed to make the choices she made by attacking and trying to kiss Tom Robinson and why she will go on the side of her dad to make it so that nobody finds out even though Scout found it out. In turn, making inferences based on what they see and hear is what kids do and this is why it is best for Harper Lee to tell the story through the eyes of