To Kill A Mockingbird Perspective Analysis

Through A Child’s Eyes “Perspective is the way we see things when we look at them from a certain distance and it allows us to appreciate their true value”(Rafael E.Pino). In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird we have Scout a six year old girl as the narrator of the story. The Finch family is no ordinary family, Scout and Jem both address their father as Atticus, they have an African American women as their mother figure and Scout isn’t the “typical” southern girl. Throughout the novel Scout gets to experience multiple different perspectives from many versatile characters. One’s perspective on the world develops through experiences with divergent personalities. Atticus, Miss Maudie and Boo Radley impact Scout’s output on the world around her and begin to grow her character with their aspects on life and the town that they live in.

He would have to be Scout’s biggest influence from the start of the novel to the ending. In chapter three Scout comes home and complains about how her new teacher doesn’t agree with Scout’s reading abilities and Atticus explains to Scout, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb into his or her skin and walk around in it”(39). Scout being the age she is wants to physically fight someone when they make a comment about her father defending a nigger. Atticus goes on to state, “Try fighting with your head for a change . . . it’s a good one, even if it does resist learning”(101). He continues to push Scout to see other’s perspective and to broaden her worldly view on moral education and social