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Narrative Distance and Setting — Homework

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Narrative Distance and Setting — Homework

Read the opening chapters of To Kill a Mockingbird before answering.

  1. 1.Define narrative distance and explain how it applies to Scout as narrator.
  2. 2.Give one way narrative distance could create humor and one way it could create sorrow.
  3. 3.Explain why Harper Lee might spend several chapters establishing Maycomb's setting before introducing the novel's central conflict.
  4. 4.Name one specific historical fact about the setting established in the opening chapters.
  5. 5.Find one moment where the adult narrator's voice clearly comments on the child's in-scene understanding, and explain what it adds.
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