Read the following paragraph from *To Kill a Mockingbird*:

"When I was six, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. I was terrified, but I could not see why the world seemed so unfair. My father, Atticus, told me that sometimes people do not get what they deserve, and that we must try to understand them."

Identify the narrative perspective used in this excerpt, and assess how this choice of perspective influences the reliability of the narration and the development of the novel's central theme of racial injustice.

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Read the following paragraph from *To Kill a Mockingbird*:

"When I was six, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. I was terrified, but I could not see why the world seemed so unfair. My father, Atticus, told me that sometimes people do not get what they deserve, and that we must try to understand them."

Identify the narrative perspective used in this excerpt, and assess how this choice of perspective influences the reliability of the narration and the development of the novel's central theme of racial injustice.

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First‑person child narrator; the limited, innocent viewpoint makes the narration partly unreliable but authentic, and it allows the theme of racial injustice to unfold as Scout's understanding matures.

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