Effects of a Child Narrator Point of View – The perspective from which the story is told. Why is point of view so important? What are the effects of having a child narrator? Things are explained to us as they are to Scout. Atticus and Jem must teach her rules and customs of Maycomb regularly, which a reader from outside of this small town may not know “From the Radley chickenyard tall pecan trees shook their fruit into the schoolyard, but the nuts lay untouched by the children: Radley pecans would kill you” (9).

Effects of a Child Narrator When Scout experiences things for the first time, the reader does too, and gets a full, detailed description. Scout often has opposite feelings of characters who are stereotypical, racist or otherwise less moral than her. These characters have been jaded by a society of prejudice that Scout has not yet grown up into. Things can be confused or incorrectly reported by someone who doesn’t know any better.