Question

How well does Scout understand the events she’s relating to in this excerpt from the novel? What clues in the text reveal her point of view? How does Scout’s perspective shape or limit the reader’s understanding of the unfolding action? What demands are placed on the reader when we have a narrator with a limited point of view?

Answer 1

Scout has a surface level understanding of the events, when Scout asks Atticus questions like "whats a [n-slur] lover" it shows that she doesn't completly understand what's happening, it limits the reader's understanding because you are only given the information that she understands, and the way that she understand it. It demands that the reader pay close attention and make infrences.