The theme of childhood in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 'To Kill a Mockingbird' by Harper Lee and Charlotte Brontë's 'Jane Eyre' are two very different books written in different historical periods. There are, however, similarities in themes and background. For example, both books were written in times of great social upheaval and conflict. In To Kill a Mockingbird, the world was still very racist and it wasn't until about twenty years after the book was written that men like Martin Luther King and Malcolm “Jane Eyre” was a little different as it was set in a time when the masses of overworked and underpaid Victorians were given more freedoms and more time to have these freedoms. Both books are written from the first-person point of view, with a narrative voice. In "To Kill a Mockingbird", the narrator is the voice of "Scout", a young girl and in "Jane Eyre", Jane herself takes on the role of narrator. Both books are also fictional autobiographies. This means that they tell, if not directly, the lives of the authors. The two books (in the first chapters) revolve heavily around childhood themes. How these themes are introduced affects the entire book and how the characters react to each other. “To Kill a Mockingbird” begins with two paragraphs that summarize the entire book. It tells the reader the beginning, middle, and end of the book. It also introduces how the story will be told and five of the most important characters. For eight paragraphs there is nothing but the description of the Finch family. This is where childhood really starts to be introduced. The language used is almost completely superfluous, very descriptive, uses many effective, if childish, techniques, such as "There was no rush, because there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with" ( repetition) and very descriptive sentences like "A day lasted twenty-four hours but seemed longer." The description of the characters is done in two very different ways in 'To Kill a Mockingbird', the first is adult and formal: "Jem and I found our Father satisfactory: he played with us, read to us and treated us with polite detachment.