Which tense should you use when talking about a book if it is narrated in both the past and present tenses? I am asking this because in To Kill a Mockingbird (Can you underline book titles here?) Scout uses both the present and past tenses when narrating the story.
Answer
When analyzing literature, it needs to be done in the present tense. Literature lives as you read; it never happened, it is always happening.
Pretend this is part of an essay
For example, when "Dill [leaves them] early in September... [they see] him off on the five o'clock bus."
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