First Extra Credit Question

Hello all,
Hope your summer has been excellent thus far, and that you're getting to those summer reading books. Here is your first opportunity for extra credit.

Although To Kill a Mockingbird is written in first person from the point of view of Scout, the book is really focusing on Jem. It is primarily about how he grows up during this influential summer (with some important moments in Scout's life). Why do you feel that Harper Lee chose to write the novel from this point of view?

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