From whose point of view is the story told in To Kill a Mockingbird?

To Kill a Mockingbirdis written in the first person, from the point of view of Jean Louise ("Scout") Finch. Scout writes as an adult, remembering her experiences when she was a young girl. To Kill a Mockingbird is many things, but it is above all a narrative of Scout's youth. Scout is highly perceptive and attuned to human nature (both as a narrator and in the way she describes herself as a girl). She...

To Kill a Mockingbird is written in the first person, from the point of view of Jean Louise ("Scout") Finch. Scout writes as an adult, remembering her experiences when she was a young girl. To Kill a Mockingbird is many things, but it is above all a narrative of Scout's youth. Scout is highly perceptive and attuned to human nature (both as a narrator and in the way she describes herself as a girl). She has a dry wit that borders on cynicism, and she is very hot-tempered. By using the voice of an articulate woman, and portraying events through the eyes of a very precocious young girl, Harper Lee is able to call attention to many of the oddities of small-town life in the South. Especially powerful is her struggle to understand the malignant forces of racism that color almost every facet of life in Maycomb, and her evolving understanding of Boo Radley. These children, very bright but innocent to the sociocultural forces that undergirded the Jim Crow South, found racism absurd. So the decision to tell the story through Scout's eyes shapes every aspect of the story.