Intertextuality

Intertextuality Essay

Natalie Moore

The reading of many texts is important in everyday life in order for people to be able to develop values and attitudes towards other events or texts they may come across later in life. This is known as intertextual reading, where one text may influence the readers attitudes towards another text comparatively. From my own reading of the novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, I found many intertextual links within other stories, but mainly the short story “The Test” by Angelica Gibbs. Both stories deal with the trials of the African Americans living in a white society in the early 1900’s America. I believe that from firstly reading “To Kill A Mockingbird” strongly influenced my attitudes and values to the issues presented in “The Test”.

In the novel “To Kill A Mockingbird”, the centre of conflict within the story was based around Atticus, one of the main cha...