To Kill A Mockingbird Socratic Analysis

To Kill a Mockingbird Socratic Seminar The novel would be completely different if Scout was not the narrator. It would be different because Scout is still a child. She hasn’t really had any experience with the outside world and especially when she goes to school. In the beginning, she thinks that school is going to be like how Atticus taught her at home but when she goes to school she realizes that it is nothing like how it is at home. If Jem were to narrate the story, we would get at first, maybe a slightly immature child but then as the novel progresses we would start to get more mature ways on how to handle the situation. If Atticus were to narrate the story we wouldn’t get nearly an interesting story as when Scout narrates. We wouldn’t have been able to completely get the whole story of when Bob Ewell tries to hurt Jem and Scout. If it was from his perspective we would have only gotten what Scout and Jem had told him and not have been able to know the whole situation. If the narrator was Calpurnia we would see a whole different side of the story because she didn’t grow up like Jem and Scout due to her ethnicity. We would

In some way Atticus didn’t minimize the situation, he told Jem and Scout the whole truth, he didn’t hide any details. When Tom Robinson was accused of rape, Atticus didn’t tell Jem and Scout that Tom was accused of a bad thing. He told them the truth. Atticus doesn’t hold Jem and Scout from learning how to read and write. He wants his kids to be educated and to get an idea of how the world is. When Scout goes to school, she thinks that her teacher will be glad that she can already read but Miss Caroline has a negative reaction because she states that “Your father does not know how to teach.” His teaching style shapes Scout and Jem to be well-mannered children because they have learned from their mistakes in the