“To Kill a Mocking Bird” was published in 1960, and was written by the Author Harper Lee. This story is recounted about a young called Jean Louise Finch, also known as ‘Scout’ through the book. She talks about her child hood experiences, and as the story goes on we understand the major themes portrayed through the book.
In ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird” Harper Lee touches on many social problems, among these is the problem racism in the southern states of America in the mid 1930’s. The dialogue is marked by the frequent use of the word ‘nigger’. This is a convenient way to indicate to the reader certain characters portray a unique aspect of racism. When Harper Lee refers to African-Americans she uses the word “Coloured” She uses the word ‘coloured’ to distinguish between the white and black population.
Scout is a good narrator in this circumstance because she had experienced the events first hand, as well as the absence of bias. She helps us understand the great depression and the on going
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The novel approaches this question by dramatizing Scout and Jem’s transition from their childhood ‘innocence, in which believing that people are because they had never seen evil, to a more adult perspective, in which they are very much confronted with evil, meaning they must incorporate this into their understanding of the world. An example of this would be the portrayal of the transition from innocence to experience, one of the books important subthemes involves the threat that hatred, prejudice, and ignorance pose to the innocent, (Such as Tom Robinson and Boo Radley) as they’re not prepared for the evil they sadly encounter during the book, and, as a result they died. Even Jem noticed to an extend by his discovery of the evil of racism during and after the trial. Whereas Scout was able to maintain her basic faith in ‘human nature’ even despite Tom’s