To Kill a Mockingbird

Descriptive Style

Read the following and note how Harper Lee builds her images. In just two or three sentences, she gives enough detail for us to see vividly what she is describing:

Task:a) Choose two other descriptions from the early chapters of To Kill A Mockingbird and make notes on them to show what makes them vivid and memorable. Descriptions you should find helpful are of Dill (p 13), Mr Radley (p 17 - 18) Miss Caroline (p22) and Walter (p 28 -29)

b) Describe in writing a person or place that you know well using Harper Lee's description as a model: six to eight sentences, packed with visual detail

From: "Focus on Fiction New Approaches to Literature for Key Stage 4" by Mick Saunders, Christine Hall, Sallyanne Greenwood, published by Oxford, Heinemann Education. (p 56)