Paper 2 Essay- To Kill a Mockingbird

As the evaluation of the paper 2 essay we had to choose one thesis statment, I chose "How and to what effect has harper lee employed narrative voice in «To Kill a Mockingbird»". I felt comfortable with this thesis, I thought that I had enough resources to answer the question with strong argument. My answer was:

"Harper Lee chose a girl of six years as the narrative voice because she represents inocence, the story is very connected to the author’s life and the lack of knowledge that children may have help her expressing how the world was."

And my arguments were:

- A children in those times represent the innocence, and as she is growing adults show the cruelty they have inside when the moment of educating the child comes.

- Harper Lee's life is very similar to the life of Scout in her novel "To Kill a Mockingbird". It is almost a biography, but with something changed and created. So the author chose a girl to narrate the story because is very easy for her to tell the story as it happend in her life.

- A children has lack of knowledge, thing that helps the author introduce the readers into the historical context.