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Examples Of Point Of View In To Kill A Mockingbird
Jem, Scout and Dill view Boo Radley as a monster. Throughout the story their point of views change. At first they view Boo as a monster because they’ve heard stories about how he tried to stab his dad in the leg. Then, the characters start finding treats in the tree and that starts to change their point of view. This event changes their point of view because they realize that Boo isn’t who they thought he was, they realized he was a human being.

“ Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom.” (page 9) This quote shows that the kids don’t look at Boo as a regular person. For example, “ People said he went out at night when the moon was down, and peeped in windows.” This shows that the children believed that Boo was a creep. Remind you the
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