We spent some time in class watching some of A Christmas Story. You’ll remember that I asked you to pay attention to the tone of Ralph’s voice as an adult. He was excited, boisterous, overly enthusiastic, and easily swooped up into waves of deep emotion (hilarity, tragedy, fear, etc.). In short, Ralph as an adult sounded like Ralphie as a kid. Ralph as a narrator still believed in Santa, still believed in the almost magical power of an air rifle, and still believed in pure Christmas magic. At least, he sounded like he did. This is what made the movie so funny. Triple dogs dares just don't exist in the adult world.
So here we are well into To Kill a Mockingbird, and guess what? The same device is used in the novel. Scout as an adult is seeing the events of the novel through her eyes back when she was a little girl. Barely sad moments are full of grief, and tragic adult moments are hardly visible whatsoever. We might, for this reason, consider Scout what we call an “unreliable” narrator. In other words, we can’t always trust what Scout says.
After all, Scout already knows how the book is going to turn out. She lived it, right? She can’t give away the ending! She needs to create drama, suspense, humor.
One such example of Scout-the-adult-narrator mimicking the voice and vision of Scout-the-six-year-old is in Chapter One when she recounts Jem’s description of Boo. According to Jem, Boo “was about six-and-a-half feet tall” judging from the tracks Boo left behind and “dined on raw squirrels, and any cats he could catch” (Hansberry 16). Scout thinks this is a “reasonable description” (16). The reader, of course, knows Jem’s description is anything but “reasonable.” In fact, it is far from it. Heck, he makes Boo sound like Frankenstein's monster. This is a great example of moment in which the tone (the narrator’s attitude) is contrary to the mood (the reader’s attitude).
Your Task : Find another example of this narrative discord – a moment in which Scout the narrator is being less than straight with the reader and thus creating a chasm between tone and mood. Your comments should be thoughtful and thorough, use correct textual citations (just like my example), and contain correct grammar and punctuation. Remember, we're looking for specific examples, not broad generalizations. Look for short, concise word clusters. Feel free to find your example anywhere within chapters one through eight. One more thing: No repeats! (So be sure to read all of the comments posted before yours.)
Extra Credit: Feel free to comment on one another’s responses. Just be sure to move the conversation along. This is a discussion, not a list of repeated ideas. You may agree or disagree with one another as long as you support your claims with evidence.
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ReplyDeleteAnother example of a moment when Scout the narrator causes a chasm between tone and mood is in Chapter Fifteen when Atticus is serenely sitting outside the jail in which Tom Robinson is staying, and a mob of men comes along. Scout, Jem, and Dill secretly follow Atticus to the jailhouse, and are watching the whole scene from a distance. The mob (including Mr. Cunningham) is talking to Atticus about where Tom is, because they want to hang him. Scout hears part of their conversation then sprints up to her father. Scout is completely unaware of the danger that surrounds her when she calls, “H-ey Atticus!” (Lee 152) in an attempt to give her father a delightful surprise. Later on, still oblivious to the danger, Scout starts a leisurely conversation with Mr. Cunningham, she says, “Hey, Mr. Cunningham. How’s your entailment getting’ along?” (153). Mr. Cunningham does not reply. She continues to lead the conversation and narrate with great tranquility even though Mr. Cunningham is barely responding to her questions and statements, which evidently demonstrates her naive, six-year-old character. The reader absolutely senses the tension in the situation present, providing a very apprehensive mood for the moment. However, Scout’s tone is anything but; she talks and acts as if there’s nothing to be concerned about, causing an opposition between the tone and mood.
ReplyDeleteAn example of narrative discord between tone and mood can be found in chapter 8. Scout has never seen snow before, so when she sees it for the first time, Scout screams, “The world’s endin’, Atticus!” (Lee 73). The adult Scout already knows that it was just snow, but she makes it sound like something terrible has just happened. This causes the reader to also feel worried and scared until Atticus explains to Scout that it’s just snow. When Scout realizes that she’s in no danger, the reader becomes relieved and relaxed.
ReplyDeleteI also strongly agree with Caroline’s example. Scout clearly makes the reader worried and fearful for her when we realize what dangerous situation she’s getting into.
A good example of when the tone is different then the mood is when Jem is hurt and scout is freaking out. As soon as the doctor walks in Scout immediately starts asking, "Is Jem going to die?" The tone and the mood are the same here, wondering if Jem is ok. When the doctor comes out and announces that Jem will be ok the mood is relaxed, but the tone is still worried. Scout is still scared for Jem even though everyone knows that Jem will be alright. The tone stays panicked until scout falls asleep knowing that everything will be alright, something that the reader knew the moment the doctor came out with the news.
ReplyDeleteAn example of difference in tone and mood is in chapter 3. After school Jem invited Walter to have dinner at there house. While at dinner Scout comments on things that the reader and the adult Scout knows shouldn't have been said. She says, "But he's gone and drowned all his(referring to Walter) dinner in syrup. He's poured it all over-"(32) The adult Scout and the reader knows that it is rude to say that to your guest but Scout, at the time she said it, is unaware of the rudeness of her statement. This makes the reader feel unease until Calpurnia tells Scout, " That boy's yo' comp'ny and if he wants to eat up the table cloth you let him, you hear?"(32).
ReplyDeleteBoth Monica and Caroline's example were great. I really liked Monica's example of the snow. It was a perfect example of the tone and mood.
One example of when the tone and mood are different is when Dill is under the bed and Scout thinks it's a snake. She knocks on Jem's door, "How does a snake feel?". Scout as an adult knows that it was Dill, yet she makes the reader scared and worried about what is going to happen if it indeed is a snake. Yet Scout-the adult keeps on worrying the reader by listing descriptions of where it could have come from. "Our houses had no cellars; they were built on stone blocks a few feet above the ground, and the entry of reptiles was not unknown but was not commonplace. When Dill comes out and Jem 'petitions God', the reader is relieved and now wonders why Dill is there.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Kelsey. Her example was mine at first, but she took it and read it. Her situation was weird, but interesting.
Throughout To Kill a Mocking Bird, Scout, the narrator, creates a chasm between tone and mood. One example is found in chapter 2. It was Scouts first day of school. It was lunch time, and Miss Caroline, Scouts teacher, noticed that Walter Cunningham did not bring a lunch at all. The teacher offered a quarter to go and buy something to eat, but Walter did not accept it. Scout rose up and said, “Miss Caroline, he’s a Cunningham” (26). Clearly, Scout is unaware of how insulting her statement was to the Cunningham's. After reading this part of the book, the reader feels hesitant about what is to happen next.
ReplyDeleteAnother example of narrative discord would be when Scout thinks Jem is dying after he breaks his arm. We know she's a child because of her tone and her innocence in this scene with Dr. Reynolds. Jem simply has a broken arm, but since Scout is a kid in this scene, she assumes he's dying. She repetitively asks Dr. Reynolds whether he's dying or not, when in the adult world, we'd know he wasn't.
ReplyDeleteIn chapter 2 Scout begins first grade, her teacher being Miss Caroline. As their reading Miss Caroline says to Scout that her father should not teach her anymore that it would interfere with her reading. Scout replies, “ He hasn’t taught me anything, Miss Caroline.” (22) Miss Caroline says to Scout “ your father does not know how to teach”. Scout is capable to read perfectly but Miss Caroline does not want her to be able to because she wouldn’t know what to do with her for the rest of the year.
ReplyDeleteAn example of when the mood and tone are different is when Mrs. Dubose died because she was a morphine addict. When Scout and Jem heard she died, their tone was sad but their mood was shocking because they wouldn't expect for a nice elderly lady to be on a drug called "morphine". If they knew about this earlier, Atticus, Jem, and Scout would've helped her by taking her to a rehabilitation.
ReplyDeleteI also agree on how Tom Olickal explained his point of view on the difference on mood and tone.
In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the main character Scout narrates the story as an adult from a child’s perspective. An example of this narration is in chapter six, when Scout, Jem, and Dill sneak the Radley property and hear a gun shot. The three kids wonder into the property to get a look at Boo through the windows. When they discover the windows are covered by curtains they go into the back yard to see if they could see him from the windows in the back of the house. The children see a shadow over them, then hear a gunshot and run away. Jem’s pants get caught on the fence when escaping, in a hurry to get off the Radley property quickly, he takes off his pants and keeps running. When safe at home, Jem tells Scout he is going back to get his pants, Scout becomes awfully worried. “Look, it ain’t worth it, Jem. A lickin’ hurts but it doesn’t last. You’ll get your head shot off, Jem. Please…” (Lee 75). Scout believes Jem will get shot at by Boo Radley, when the adult Scout know it was only Nathan Radley attempting to shoot a black man who he had believed was trying to rob him. Scout as an adult knows Boo was actually protecting the children from getting in trouble. The tone and the mood are different.
ReplyDeleteI think a good example about Scout’s tone in the story is in chapter eleven. Scout and Jem were going downtown on Jem’s birthday to spend his birthday money. Scout decided to get a baton, something she’s wanted for a while. She says, “It was my burning ambition to grow up and twirl with the Maycomb County High School band,” (Lee 134). After she grew up, Scout probably thought the band in high school was stupid, (no offense to anybody). She just had her little goals in life and one of them was to get a baton and learn how to twirl it. Scout could have easily said, “Jem ruined Mrs. Dubose’s flowers with my new baton,” but she wanted the story to sound like it was told from the 6-year-old Scout’s view.
ReplyDeleteIn the novel, To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee, an example of narrative discord is during the trial of Tom Robinson. We know she is speaking as a child because she knows that a black man's word would not be taken or trusted over a white man's word in the time period they where in. Scout said, "He's not supposed to lean, Reverend, but don't fret, we've won it." If Scout was older she would have definitely not have said that. She was too young to fully understand what was currently going on at the time.
ReplyDeleteAnother example of when adult-narrator Scout is recounting the story through the eyes of her childhood self, is when she discovers gum in the knot-hole of a tree on the Radley’s property. Scout is thoroughly convinced that Boo is a vicious and cruel monster. Therefore, when she discovers the gum, Scout sprints home to examine it. “I examined my loot… I sniffed it and it smelled all right. I licked [the gum] and waited a while. When I did not die I crammed it into my mouth (44).” Adult-narrator Scout’s is in fact very concerned that the gum might actually be harmful or poisonous, while the reader knows that the gum isn’t harmful, and is intended to be a joke.
ReplyDeleteI addition, I agree with Jenna because adult-narrator Scout definitely knew that Jem had only broken his arm, but the way that Scout reacted, I thought Jem was really dead.
ReplyDeleteIn the third chapter, Scout told her father about how miss Stephanie wouldn’t let her read again and truly believed her, “and she said you taught me all wrong, so we can’t never read anymore, ever,”(29). When Scout wrote this book she knew she was still able to read and that it was silly to think she can’t, but she portrayed herself as a younger kid by being a lot more gullible than she was when she wrote the book. She actually made it seem that she believed that she would never be able to read again with her dad.
ReplyDeleteIn the novel, To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee, an example of narrative discord is during the trial of Tom Robinson. We can infer that she is speaking as a child because she knows that, in this time period, a black man’s (Tom Robinson) statements would be considered ridiculous and meaningless from a white man’s standpoint. Scout also even said, “Reverend, but don't fret, we've won it." If Scout was older and more mature she probably would not have said that. She was too young at that point to fully understand what was currently going on at the time, both during the present time and during that time period in the world.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Monica when Scout said the world was ending. When I read that sentence I was very confused until I read that Scout saw snow.
ReplyDeleteAn example of opposite in tone and mood is in chapter 8 when Miss Maudie’s house is burning down and Scout is telling us about the moment when she was woken up by her father around 1 o’clock. She was saying things like “ Is it morning already?” (91) but as an adult she knows exactly what is going on and that it is not morning. I feel that this is a good example of the difference in tone and mood because it is straight and to the point and we clearly can see that as an adult she knows whats happening.
ReplyDeleteAn example of when the ton and the mood are different is when Jem and Scout were attacked and Jem gets knocked out cold. Scout keeps asking if he is going to die, she is making it really dramatic but in all that time we know that he isnt dead, he has just been knocked out. Scout as an adult knows that he isnt dead but in order to create drama and suspense she has to come to the conclusion that Jem is dead, now if Jem is dead there really wouldnt be anything to write about because Jem and Scout do and go everywhere together. The tone in this specific scene is very panicked and rushed like everything is coming to an end, where as the mood of the reader is calm and non-believing, at least for me. The tone and the mood are different when it comes to this scene.
ReplyDeleteAn example of a chasm between the tone and mood is in chapter 5 when Scout asks Mrs.Maudie: "Do you think Boo Radley's still alive? [...] Maybe he died and they stuffed him up the chimney(57)." As an adult Scout knows that a human being stuffed into a chimney is unimaginable and ridiculous but to show her curiosity of Boo Radley she exaggerates. As a child Scout actually takes into consideration that Boo is stuffed into the chimney, but we as an audience can assume that Boo is not in the chimney.
ReplyDeleteA clear example of how Scout shows narrative discord. One of the many examples I chose is in chapter fifteen. It is the scene by the jailhouse when the group of men came to Atticus. Insead of being straight forward and a reliable character, Scout says "(...) and it meant somebody's man would get jumped. This was too good to miss. I broke away from Jem and ran as fast as I could to Atticus" (Mockingbird 202). The narrator, (older Scout), could have just given it away by saying "Nobody'a going to get jumped, I just simply ran to Atticus, and at the end they leave." Simple as that. Instead, she built her way up to the point of achieving suspense and action to grab the reader's attention making it harder to put the book down until the end of the chapter. This is an example of contrasting mood and tone. Scout knew nobody was going to get hurt, yet she made it seem like it depended on her, to save the world.
ReplyDeleteIn the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, an example of narrative discord between tone and mood can be found on chapter 21. Scout doesn't undrstand what is going on at the trial. She thinks Atticus won. Scout says, "He's not supposed to lean, Reverend, but don't fret, we've won it," (279) Scout sees herself from what she been through and what she felt at that time. Scout thinks she's old enough to know what was happening at the trial but if she was older she would have understood what was going on in reality. Even though Scout knew what the end was, she provided us with the scenario of what had happened when she was a child just to give us a feeling of what she went through.
ReplyDeleteI agree to Monica's example about how Scout clearly makes us scared and wooried for her even though she knows the danger.
A example of when Scout knows what is going to happen but still narrates it like she is a child who doesn't know is when she talks about Boo Radley and the Radley house. Scout seems to be very scared and curious about the house and its history when she actually knows everything about it and that it is not really a haunted house and Boo is actually a good person. Throughout half of the book she acts like Boo Radley is a psycho when she really knows that he is like a gaurdian angel that watches over them.
ReplyDeleteA great example of how Scout as a narrator speaks in the tone of the child she used to be was when she said “I told Jem if he set fire to the Radley house I was going to tell Atticus on him.” (pg.17) I felt this expressed her inner child because as an adult she wouldn’t ever tell on Jem to Atticus. Even if she did, it would not be as intense as this threat she had just laid upon her brother. She was acting and sounded just like a typical younger sibling. As the reader we can really get into the story and look through Scout’s eyes as to see how aggressive and intimidating those words were.
ReplyDeleteOne example is when a fire sets to Miss Maudie's house and Atticus tells Jem and Scout to "go down and stand in front of the Radley place" (92). After the incident had cooled down a bit Scout "looked down and found myself clutching a brown woolen blanket" (95). Scout does not know, at first, who put the blanket around here. The reader, on the other hand, has an idea that Boo Radley had placed that blanket on her since they were standing in front of the house and since most people were by Miss Maudie's house, trying to stop the fire. This is an example of when tone is different than the mood.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with Caroline, Monica, and Grace. The mood and tone are opposite in all the situations. When Scout goes up to Atticus while he is at the jail, Scout does not know what is going on in her surrounding environment and does not realize the danger but the reader can tell there is danger all around. When the snow is falling, the reader knows that they are not all going to die but Scout does not know what snow is and thinks it is something harmful. Also, when Scout mentions something to Walter at the dinner table, she does not think she is being rude and that she is just making a remark but the reader knows that she is being rude and that she said something she was not supposed to say.
ReplyDeleteIn the book To Kill a Mockingbird, throughout the whole story Scout shows many scenes were the tone and mood are different. In chapter 8, the first snowfall since 1885 comes and shocks scout. She has never seen snow before, none of the kids in Maycomb have. It is all new to them and once it happens the tone of her voice was anxious and scared. "The world's endin', Atticus! Please do something--! I dragged him to the window and pointed." The tone of Scout's voice makes her seem childish even though really when she is narrating the whole story, she knows exactly what is going on. She seems oblivious to everything with her juvenile voice. From this, tone and mood are completely different and appear multiple times in the story. It best resembles To Kill a Mockingbird because of the fact how it is narrated from one of the characters in the future. That is what makes the story even better and more interesting to read. Scout does not give anything away, and tells things as if it is from her own perspective from back then.
ReplyDeleteIn the book To Kill a Mockingbird, throughout the whole story Scout shows many scenes were the tone and mood are different. In chapter 8, the first snowfall since 1885 comes and shocks scout. She has never seen snow before, none of the kids in Maycomb have. It is all new to them and once it happens the tone of her voice was anxious and scared. "The world's endin', Atticus! Please do something--! I dragged him to the window and pointed."(86)The tone of Scout's voice makes her seem childish even though really when she is narrating the whole story, she knows exactly what is going on. She seems oblivious to everything with her juvenile voice. From this, tone and mood are completely different and appear multiple times in the story. It best resembles To Kill a Mockingbird because of the fact how it is narrated from one of the characters in the future. That is what makes the story even better and more interesting to read(narrators voice). Scout does not give anything away, and tells things as if it is from her own perspective from back then.
ReplyDeletei agree with andjela's post on tone and mood. Scout had no clue what was going on around her, while at the time the narrator(scout) knew everything like how boo was going to be putting the blanket on her. I thought that scene really showed the difference between tone and mood, and had me understand it even better. Scout was blind to what was happening around her, and it is like looking in the past for the narrator to go back and re-tell what happened. Scout (narrator) had to step into character again rewinding back and telling the story not from the future's view, but as if it was all happening again and she didn't know one thing.
ReplyDeleteThroughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, there are several scenes when Scout's narrations "twist" or exaggerate the truth. One part in particular is in chapter four when Scout finds a shiny package in the tree with two pennies inside. "We ran home, and on the front porch we looked at a small box patchworked with bits of tinfoil collected from chewing-gum wrappers... Jem flicked open the tiny catch" (46). It is clear that the mood in Scout's voice is building up in excitement throughout the paragraph. Then Scout also says in her narration, "Finders were keepers," (47). This was a saying that was used by mostly children for the purpose of keeping things they wanted when they knew it was not theirs. This gives the reader the feeling that the full grown voice of Scout is living the moment in the story.
ReplyDeleteI strongly agree with Dambi Kim's point with Scout and the snow. Scout as the narrator, already knows what snow is. She has nothing to be scared of. However, she narrates the story as if she returned to the actual moment, reliving the event. She says she nearly "died of fright" (86) when the actual narrator knew snow was nothing to be afraid of.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I think that chapter one has a different mood and tone; chapter one is meant to be informational, so the tone is informational, but the mood that it creates is pure boredom. This chapter also has a bit of a chronicle contradictions, starting at the end of the book, easing into before the story starts, then finally the story begins.
ReplyDeleteIn the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, an example of narrative discord is during the trial of Tom Robinson. Atticus is trying to explain how the citizens of Maycomb are scared, and not interested. Atticus gives his best explanation with an example of Mr. Link Deas, however Scout asks, "'What'd make him think either one of 'em stop trading with him?'"Being a child, she doesn't understand how the word around the jury 'gets around' and people know who voted for what. Scout was too young to know what was going on.
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I also agree with Skyler Streff and his point that Scout doesn't understand fully what was going on. She had thought that they had won the case, but she obviously didn't know much about the prejudices in the courtroom and how a black man had slim chances to winning to a white man in a court case.
ReplyDeleteA moment in which Scout the narrator is being less than straight with the reader and thus creating a chasm between tone and mood in Kill a mockingbird, is during the trial when Scout and Dill went out for a little bit and saw Mr. Doplphus Raymond "Take a good sip, it'll quieten you." "Dill, you watch out,now," Scout thought he was offering Dill some whiskey so everyone is worried about the outcome of Dill until he states that, "Scout, its nothing but coca-cola." (pg 267) At this point everyone feels realieved but Scouts still confused. The mood was suspensful but the tone was worrisome.
ReplyDeleteThe tone and mood are different to a point in the story, To Kill A Mockingbird when everyone in town is prejudice but Scout doesn't really comprehend what is going on and what that means when the White people call the Blacks bad names unknown to Scout. She is brought up this way partly by Atticus and he portrays to be a nice man who does not segregate the Whites and Blacks. As an adult, Scout would have been more aware of her surroundings, therefore she would have known about the outide world and why things were the way they seem. She acts confused throughout the book, portraying her character as a young child.
ReplyDeleteAn example of when the tone and mood are different in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird is when Walter Cunningham came to the Finche's for dinner. The tone of this dinner was sweet and polite but the mood was as if she wadss annoyed. "He would probably have poured it into his milk glass had I not asked what the sam hill he was doing. " (32). this shows that even though she invited him to dinner and was being polite, she eventually got annoyed because he did things differently because he's a Cunningham.
ReplyDeleteScout continuously creates tone and contrast throughout To Kill a Mockingbird. One example is through her relationship with Jem. When Jem turns 12, his behavior and moods begin to change. As readers, we know that this is natural in growing up. Scout on the other hand, doesn’t understand the mental developments he’s enduring, and resolves that he just needs to be beaten up to set his mind straight. She explains to Calpurnia, “He ain’t that old. All he needs is somebody to beat him up, and I ain’t big enough.” (153). This passage expresses humor to the reader because of Scout’s childish, ridiculous thought process. It clearly expresses the contrast of the reader’s understanding of the situation as opposed to Scout’s 8-year-old views.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with Monica, in that Scout doesn't understand that it's snowing, but instead believes that "the world is ending!"
Scout always uses tone thorugh out the story. When the are at the jail house, Scout acts like a child and speaks like one but truly she knows what is going on there. In ways it is good when the mood is different then the tone. In that scene it makes it two types of feeling.
ReplyDeleteTo kill a mocking bird is a great example of how scout is an adult but narrates as if She was a kid again. When it snowed in Maycomb for the first time since 1885. Scout had never seen it before. She woke up to a blanket of white powder and reacted. She said "the worlds endin', Atticus. Please do something-!"(86).Scout is not telling the story through her eyes now, shes telling the story through her eyes as a child.
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