To Kill a Mockingbird is the only successful novel of Harper Lee. The novel has manifested her rich and colorful life. The author uses many writing characteristics to enrich the content and theme of the novel. This paper attempts to connect with the author’s living experiences and the background and compares with other works which have the same characteristics to analyze the main writing characteristics in the novel-- children’s point of view, first person narrative and circular structure. The study of the writing characteristics in To Kill a Mockingbird can help readers to understand the work better and learn how to use these characteristics in the feature creation.
Keywords：To Kill a Mockingbird; children’s point of view; first person narrative; circular structure; Harper Lee
Contents
1. Introduction 1
2. Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird 2
2.1 Introduction of To Kill a Mockingbird 2
2.2 Brief introduction of southern America literature 2
2.3 Introduction of Harper Lee and her living background 3
3. Writing characteristics in To Kill a Mockingbird 4
3.1 Children’s point of view 4
3.2 First person narrative 5
3.3 Circular structure 7
4. Conclusions 9
5. Acknowledgements 10
6. Reference 11
