To Kill A Mockingbird Passage Analysis

The book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee covers many contentious issues that plagued the time the novel was written, and some that still are controversial today. Throughout the novel, there are multiple frequent strands that appear that contribute to the overall tone and feeling of the book. In my passage 2 of these strands are very prominent and play a large role in depicting the tone of the book. I thought this passage was meaningful to the text due to the fact that it has a clear tone it displays and its use of strands. The recurrent use of strands has a major role in creating the tone of a passage. One strand that is found through the book and this passage are words that seem apathetic or callous such as “cold-natured” (Lee, 204), “late hours” “sense of futility”, “unacknowledged”, and so forth. Lee uses these words in order to create a solid setting for the passage and a feeling that is carried out through the book. An additional

While the placement of these words seem to be out of place in the passage because it seems as though Lee is trying to convey a tense, suspenseful or foreboding tone to the reader, it can be seen that Lee is doing much more than that. This strand of friendly words is used to communicate Scout’s affable mood. It is important to this strand that the narration of the story is done from the point of view of a child because words like “polite”, “real nice boy”, and “good boy” placed into a passage with a tense tone can be interpreted as childlike or innocent. In the expert, Scout uses words that impart an innocent tone until she realizes that she was “addressing the entire aggregation”. This is an important part of the story because it helps the reader understand that Scout can understand her innocence, although she does not fully realize her ignorance, that is caused by her