To Kill A Mockingbird *
Point of View - Trial

Yery often, different people view the same event in different ways. If your team had just won a stste championship, you would probably describe the game differently than someone would from the losing team. Two drivers involved in an auto accident would have different perspectives about what had caused the accident.

How people see an event and what they think about it is called point of view.

Writing Topic Select the role of someone who was involved with or someone who observed Tom Robinson's trial. Write an account of the trial from that person's point of view.

- - - a member of the black community sitting in the balcony
- - - a member of the jury who believed that Tom was innocent but was afraid to go against the other members of the jury
- - - a newspaper reporter from New York who was covering the trial
- - - Judge Taylor in his later years writing his memoirs
- - - Reverend Sykes
- - - Atticus writing in his journal
- - - Miss Maudie Atkinson
- - - Aunt Alexander

Make sure that what you write is consistent with the character whose point of view you have assumed.

Title:

An Account of Tom Robinson's Trial -
from the Point of Yiew of __________________

*** Don't forget to put your name somewhere on the paper.

Read an excellent student sample based on this assignment. * I did not develop this writing topic myself. I'm not even sure where I found it, but I believe it was in an issue of the English Journal many years ago.

Last revised: February 3, 1998 MAIL

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