To Kill a Mockingbird EssayAnalyzing the Themes, Lessons, and Narration
...ashback. Scout and Jem Finch recalled what had happened earlier in their life and tell readers what had happened. This changed the whole outlook of the narration of the story. Since Scout is 10 years older, she is old enough and mature enough to teach the lessons of the story and is believable. Lee wrote this novel as a first person flashback narrative. This narrative helps to deliver the lessons and themes accurately. Scout is able to tell what had happened and would be truthful. Readers would lose the importance of the novel if someone else told it or if a different narrative structure was chosen. If it were written with a different person as a narrator, readers would lose the lesson that Scout taught them about walking in other people‘s shoes. No other person could teach them that lesson accurately. Only she is able to teach readers this lesson. She teaches this theme through Boo Radley. Scout wanted to walk with Boo for a long time. When she finally was able to, she was able to see what he saw and knew how he felt. She wanted to prove the rumors wrong. This novel teaches three themes: the coexistence of good and evil/battle between two goods, education of children, and social class distinction. These three themes are irreversibly intertwined because they counterbalance each other. Since they are united, they teach the lessons well. If other themes tried to tell us these lessons, we would lose the importance of them. Scout teaches readers these themes by telling readers about her own childhood. The book is based on her development, so the themes represent her too. The theme of coexistence of good and evil teaches readers that there is good and bad in every person. The theme of education of children teaches readers that people have to walk in other’s shoes to know about them. The social class distinction teaches them about racial equality. Scout teaches all these themes in d...