Love and life are the best teachers “The only thing that doesn't follow a majority rule is a person's conscience. » Dalton Hare To Kill a Mockingbird The literary classic, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee chronicles the aging and maturation of two children in the old town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Great Depression. By basing this novel on his own childhood, Lee was able to immerse the reader deep into the book with its detailed descriptions and realistic plot. To create a more enjoyable read, she took a new and interesting stance for the telling of the story. To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel told through the eyes of an eight-year-old Girl Scout, in the voice of a mature woman, about the lessons she learned in a town where she faced the limitations imposed on her. ourselves and others. Told through eyes that didn't. matched to the voice, Harper Lee tells the story with a first-person narrative, through a memory, to include important details such as the qualities of the town and the behavior of the neighbors while giving Scout an opinion "without filter” on the subject. She shows this in the first chapter while building the characters. Scout's striking opinion: “Our mother died when I was two, so I never felt her absence” (p. 7). This shows the contrast between the child's eyes and the voice of the woman telling the story. A child who has no memory of her mother would not see the importance of this absence, especially when she has Calpurnia as a surrogate mother watching over her. The adult woman telling the story knows the importance of family circumstances when she recalls the memory. Plus, the entire first part of the book would seem unimportant if narrated by the child Scout. The older voice knew that for the bo...... middle of paper ...... festive themes. The difference between justice, fairness and righteousness is seen in the social ladder and in the courts to combat prejudice against black citizens, but the novel recounts the struggle that a small family made to break these prejudices . “You will see white men cheating on black men every day in your life. but...no matter who he is...or how good his family is, he's trash” and through Atticus we can see the societal divide he spans. These limits, set by yourself and your social biases, are demonstrated in To Kill a Mockingbird through the power of numbers and the need for the brave to break them. Using his childhood life as a backdrop and telling the story through evocative narration, Lee achieved his goal in creating a love story that tells a lifelong lesson about the need to do what you you think you are fair, fair or just, to create a better world..