What are all examples of the mood, theme, and point of view in To Kill a Mockingbird chapters 3 through 12?

Chapters 3
to 12 establish the tenor or feel of life in Maycomb from the point of view of , the young girl
who tells the story. We see events unfold through her clear-sighted, feisty, and innocent eyes.
She tells it like it is, because she is not yet old enough to gloss over
unpleasantness.

Mood is established continuously through these chapters as we
are acquainted with the differentwho inhabit Maycomb. There's a mood of sleepiness, but there is
also a sense that many people are living close to the poverty line in this period of the Great
Depression. For example, when Walter Cunningham, whose family can't afford to send him to school
with a lunch, comes to dinner, he is so hungry that he asks for molasses and

poured syrup on his vegetables and meat with a generous hand. He
would probably have poured it into his milk glass had I not asked what the sam hill he was
doing.

Examples of a child's point of view, which can be
comic to adult readers, emerge often. For example, Scout opensby referring to fifty-year-oldas
"feeble" and stating that he

didnt do anything.
He worked in an office, not in a drugstore. Atticus did not drive a dump-truck for the county,
he was not the sheriff, he did not farm, work in a garage, or do anything that could possibly
arouse the admiration of anyone.

Of course, this is the
point of view of a child who knows little about adult status markers. Atticus has a
higher-status job than any of those that Scout names. Also, in this very chapter, he will arouse
the admiration of his peers when he shoots the rabid dog.

Twocentral to the
story emerge in these chapters. The first is that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. Scout hears
this from Atticus and asks Miss Maudie why that is. Miss Maudie says,

Mockingbirds dont do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They
dont eat up peoples gardens, dont nest in corncribs, they dont do one thing but sing their
hearts out for us. Thats why its a sin to kill a mockingbird.

In other words, mockingbirds are innocent creatures who harm nobody and bring happiness
into the world. In the novel, they come to be connected to Tom Robinson and , innocent people
treated with prejudice.

A second theme that emerges shows that Atticus is an
extremely honorable man. For example, he shows his integrity when he tells Scout he couldn't
live with himself if he didn't give Tom Robinson as fair defense:

I couldnt hold up my head in town, I couldnt represent this county in the legislature,
I couldnt even tell you ornot to do something again.