How Is Scout Development In To Kill A Mockingbird

Dhyanee Bhatt 9A Scout’s Development for Narration

All of us grow, develop, and adapt to our surroundings according to what we see and learn. However, we don’t always only the just induce the positive values, but also adapt to the disadvantageous values, as well. To Kill a Mockingbird is a unique novel written by Harper Lee, which tells about a sophisticated family living in a small town. The focus of this book is Scout, the main character and an innocent child, and the story is presented from her perspective. The structure of the book shows the shaping of Scout’s character from innocent behavior to maturity. Scout develops her empathy and maturity throughout the book by the reflection of other characters and occurring events. The

As she develops in the book the description also broadens. At first Scout is so childish like every innocent child is. The statement stated next is an example for her childish which gives the readers a very narrow description just showing the only childish side of the real world. “As the summer progressed, so did our game. We polished and perfected it, added dialogue and plot until we had manufactured a small play upon which we rang changes every day” (Ch.4 p.43) the youth in this case is used for making games and forget about the fear, in this case Boo Radley. Another example is when her father tells her to stop the childish behavior with her classmates. Atticus teaches her not to react to other people’s opinions. “Atticus had promised me he would wear me out if he ever heard of me fighting any more; I was far too old and too big for such childish things, and the sooner I learned to hold in, the better off everybody would be.” ch.

Readers notice the difference when she tells about her feeling as well as think from the others’ perspective. This trait is still called empathy and it develops in everyone as we all grow. In Scout it develops when her dad teaches her about the hard times occurring with different people. In an incident at the starting of the book Atticus had to teach her about being in someone else’s shoes “you never really understand a person until consider from his point of view… until you climb inside his skin and walk around in it” (p.33). This quote gives us a picture of Scout thinking about the consequences to her action and before doing the actions thinking twice considering the fact about another person’s