Blog Response
2. An older Scout who is reflecting on her past tells the story in first person narration. Discuss the narrative benefits of telling from a child’s perspective with an adult’s vocabulary.
The benefit of telling the story like this, is that readers get to see how exactly the children…
I think that you really captured the reason why Harper Lee wrote the book in this style. I agree with you that the way the book is written that way so we can better understand the events that took place. If Harper Lee wrote as a six year old the story may have been harder to understand. As for your other response, I can see that you put a lot of thought into this. You explained that Boo was only perceived by Scout and Jem’s assumption, so you could say we really don’t know all that much about the real Boo. You captured the way that Scout and Jem’s bravery and childish inquest relates to their fascination with Radley’s and Boo.
