To Kill A Mockingbird
...s this well because she is an eight year old girl. She is not leaning to the white perspective because her father is not racist and she isn’t old enough to do any persecuting herself. Scout also does not tilt to the black perspective because she isn’t black. She has a straight, head on view of what happens. Also, this view is extremely innocent. In the novel, Jem and Scout walk home from a Halloween party and hear footsteps. Instead of being instantaneously afraid, they convince themselves that nothing would try and hurt them. Instead, they believe that Celil Jacobs is merely trying to play a trick on them. This technique is effective because the reader is feeling suspense for the children that are unsuspecting. Another characteristic of the child’s perspective is the dramatic influence that the children possess. Instead of Dill holding back his feelings during Tom Robinson’s trial and trying to act tough, he responds the way all the ‘tough guys’ want to; Dill cries. The children have a love-hate relationship with Boo Radley that is very dramatic. They love the idea of Boo, and trying to see him. But when they come close to being successful, they are always afraid of what could happen. At the end o...