Scout Finch Mature

The character in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird who changed the most was Scout, otherwise known as Jean-Louise Finch. Scout was an adventurous, intelligent young girl who is extremely curious. She tells the story as an adult, but she is only 5 years old at the beginning of the summer. She is very smart for her age, and matures the most out of all the characters in the novel.

In the beginning of the book, she started out young, innocent, and naive. She was smart, but unaware. She could read before she started school, and still had millions of questions. She was afraid of her mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley, but was curious about him. Due to the influence of her brother, Jem, and her father, Atticus, she was a very adventurous child. She knew how to speak her mind, which is surprising for a girl her age. She'd say things such as "I had received the impression that fine folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had," (130) and would seem wise beyond her young age.

Scout was all this and more, but she still was not quite mature.

It wasn't until the Tom Robinson case that she really began to start maturing.

She begins to understand more about the people in her town, like the Ewell's, her father, and Tom. The trial helped her mature because she learned about the racism in her town, and how wrong it was to be a racist. When she learns about the living style of the Ewell's, she accepts it, and does not make fun of it. Scout learns about Atticus's job, and how hard it is to defend someone, let alone a black man, in court. She respects him for that. He mentioned that "[...] whenever a white man [cheats] a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash" (220) and this taught Scout about how disgusting racists can be. All of this helps her mature because these people are subtly teaching her how to grow and become a better person by using their own

experiences.
Scout matures when she learns how nice of a person Boo Radley actually is. When the fight with Bob Ewell broke out, he was there to help Jem get to safety. Boo was always there, despite how strange that sounds, and he knew the kids from when they tried to get him out of the house. When Scout walked him home, she got to see the neighborhood form his perspective. Just seeing the town from his porch matured her mentally and emotionally, because it was as if she was walking in his shoes.
Atticus helped Scout grow up simply by raising her the right way. He had her reading at an extremely young age, she could understand a lot of adult concepts, and since he had no harsh rules, he allowed Scout to be herself. He and Calpurnia taught Scout to be polite, so she knew how to act around other adults. He would tell her that "you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view– until you climb into his skin and walk around in it", and this helped her understand Boo Radley's point of view on the town as she stood on his porch (30).
Scout Finch grew to be a mature 6 year old because of the influences around her. She grew because she learned more about everyone. She learned how racism affected Tom Robinson, how scummy Mr. Ewell was to almost everyone around him, how you dont know a person until you understand them, and how caring Jem and Atticus were to Scout. Her experiences that summer changed her by making her a wiser and more mature person.