From what point of view is To Kill a Mockingbird written?

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is told from the point of view of , an adult who narrates in retrospect
during the time of the narrative.

This interesting mix of adult and child in
Scout as narrator contributes greatly to the narrative as a
bildungsroman, or a novel of maturation. While the ingenuous Scout
describes the events of the story in such a manner that the reader receives a non-judgmental
commentary and can follow the maturation of the main character, the adult Scout can insert
herself into the narrative when needed for explanation. 

Such an occasion for
this injection of the adult perspective occurs when Scout first attends school and her teacher
Miss Caroline seems different from other teachers. The adult Scout inserts herself into the
narrative, explaining that Miss Caroline is from Winston County in northern Alabama, a county to
this day that is viewed with negativity by many residents of Alabama because it was disloyal to
the state during the Civil War by being sympathetic to the North. Scout even adds commentary on
how this county is more like a Northern state:

North
Alabama was full of Liquor Interests, Big Mules, steel companies, Republicans, professors, and
other persons of no background. (Ch. 2)

The use of
Scout-the-child and Scout-the-adult as narrator enriches the narrative of To Kill a
Mockingbird, making the novel appealing to both young and old.