Characteristics Of Scout In To Kill A Mockingbird

In a small town in Alabama, a story unfolds about a young girl trying to figure out what is wrong and right when it involves civil rights. In the book, To Kill A Mockingbird, Jean Louise (aka Scout) Finch was an unordinary little girl. She was not like the other girls in Maycomb, Alabama, and she was treated like she had no say in anything. Scout changed so much throughout this book, and she became a person that she never thought of herself becoming. This story shows many characteristic of the little girl just trying to make it in a small town in Alabama; Scout Finch taught us to look into someone else’s life before being prejudiced, to be unique, and to always care for people no matter the circumstance of their backgrounds.
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When children on the playground would make fun of her, or say something about her father, Scout put them into their place. George Marotous wrote, “Scout is also something of an outsider. A tomboy, she is still not completely accepted by her brother Jem and their friend Dill” (5). Coming from a small town like Maycomb, children hear their parents talk about others in the town, and then the children go to school and they talk about what the parents say. Atticus was accused of being a “nigger-lover” by a child at school, and Scout did not take it so well, so she beat the little boy up (Lee 1). The reason Scout got so defensive over Atticus is because she knows that he is just doing his job, and that he could not help who he is having to represent. The New Yorker Magazine states, “He forgives the townsfolk of Maycomb for the same reason. They are suffering from a “sickness,” he tells Scout—the inability to see a black man as a real person. All men, he believes, are just alike” (Gladwell 1). Atticus Finch never did anything wrong, he was just simply trying to do his job no matter if Boo Radley was white or black. Atticus did all that he could to try and convince the jury that Boo did not do the

When Walter Cunningham forgets his lunch money, Miss Caroline tries to give him a quarter. Scout steps in and informs Miss Caroline who Walter is, and what kind of family he has. Scout and Jem ask Walter to go eat dinner with them, and when he gets there, Walter piles on the food. Scout does not realize that he does not get fed like they do until Calpurnia had to call her into the kitchen and talked to her. Considering that Scout is just a child and so she does not realize that all people do not have the same lifestyle as she does. One may go to the same school, but not do the same activities as her, but not as financially stable like the