Urbane Language In To Kill A Mockingbird

Harper Lee makes it clear throughout the novel that through the use of urbane language, Scout is telling the story from her current stage in adulthood about her. By the end of the novel, we can see that Scout has developed the correct senses and developed from a young tomboy, into a mature lady, who has come to the realisation of the world around her. We see her morals are positivity towards human nature, societal expectations, and the position she is placed in, in the real world. As the Finch family has a black cook, they are used to dealing with racism but also have a tight connection with ‘Cal’. With this, Scout has respect and values against racism. Using ‘Scout’ to tell these events as an older, more developed lady is very important as

Calpurnia and the Finch family have formed an important bond that provides a bridge between the white world and black world to the children. Racist events throughout the novel, such as the assumption that ‘all negroes lie’ and ‘all negroes are immoral beings’ (Harper Lee, 1960, page 225, chapter 20), give Scout a bigger understanding of the world around her, and I believe this is why it is important that using Scout as the narrator is used to give a greater understanding of themes. Through these events, Scout is slowly getting the idea of black slavery and racism towards to African-Americans is common throughout those days. Using Scout to see these racist events, is important to know that children have more of an influence on events happening around them, and can also evaluate the pros and cons and she does a few times. I believe this is the main theme of the novel (black slavery), where this theme can be commonly seen from Scout where events and words as mentioned above show the lifestyle of the black community and the varied problems from the white community they are faced

Especially being a girl in that time was very tough, so using a growing girl, who by the way has learnt many new life lessons based on pivotal events, would help the readers understand more about the themes. Pivotal events seen by Scout, such as the racist events and the social classing in Maycomb have really helped me to understand the theme, where she is told things, and most of the time she has evaluated what is going on around her to give a viewpoint which is easy to understand as the reader. We can learn from the novel that Harper Lee will have a benefit on our world, where people will come to realise that our world isn’t settled and children have to see the problems that we haven’t solved yet. This will hopefully make people aware of the issues and have a subtle call to action for the people of today to fix the