To Kill A Mockingbird Critical Analytical Essay
Jamie M 10-1
Perspective is the way that you understand or see a person and is one of the most crucial qualities of any book. The importance of perspective is constantly talked about by the characters in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Lee supports the fact that every person or thing can be viewed in different ways depending on your perspective of them and that by using a different perspective you can have a deeper understanding.
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird. Lee often uses perspective to explain the more subtle parts of a character The significance of perspective is continuously used by Jean-Louise Finch who is commonly referred to as Scout. One of the first times Scout views a person with a different perspective is when Jem knocks over Mrs. Dubose’s flowers and Jem and Scout are forced by Atticus to read to Mrs. Dubose for a month, originally Scout perceives Mrs. Dubose as wicked and nasty, by the end of the month Mrs. Dubose dies recovering from her morphine addiction after, it is
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Raymond does this he says “I try to give ‘em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason…” When Scout changes her perspective to step into Dolphus Raymond’s shoes this makes sense to Scout as then Maycomb citizens could think how he is incapable of getting out of his bad situation. From this Scout learns not to prejudice people based on their decisions, and that she will never be able to know everyone’s