In the extract from her novel To Kill a Mocking-Bird, Harper Lee reveals the courage shown towards a mob of men set out to kill an innocent man. ... Harper Lee's extract imparts the danger portended in a scene outside the County jail between the lynch mob and an African-American, Tom Cunningham. ... Lee also uses the technique of a retrospective narration by the central character, Scout. ... Lee uses imagery as a technique in conveying the gruff and enigmatic appearance to the reader. ... By using the techniques of language, dialogue and first person point of view in her passage, involv...

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