This essay Explains how the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" is effected by the age of the narrator and the perspective it is told in.

The novel, To Kill a Mockingbird is told in first person point of view by a girl named Scout. The age of the person narrating a story can drastically affect the narration of events that happen. Scout is a very young girl of only about six years old. She enjoys life and probably like most youngsters, takes it for granted too. When it comes to serious issues like racism or child abuse, such a young …

…first person point of view also draws the reader deeper into the book and begs to be read for a much longer period of time. What makes first person perspective so satisfying to the reader, is that it is an explicit look into the life of another person and who they are and how they feel. It is merely feeling that you know something about that person just by reading what they have to say.