Discuss how scout’s race affects the tone, voice, and content of the narration

Scout is an informative and interesting character because she embodies a contradiction. In one sense, the fact that Scout is white creates certain expectations surrounding her character. Most white people in the book feel superior to black people. Moreover, they are constrained by social expectations and prejudice. On the other hand, Scout is young and rebellious, and this allows her to escape most of these constraints. Therefore, the point of view that Scout offers is one of being able to see what white society is like, but not agreeing or conforming to it. In this way, she is able to highlight the contradictions and the absurdity of society during that time period.

- "he is a very real person and his intent isn't to influence us vonnegut addresses this towards the end of the letter when he says, if we choose to curse, that is by our own individual means."

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.