Scout was the narrator of the book "To Kill a Mockingbird" (by Harper Lee). At first she didn't know a lot about Maycomb (the town they live in), the people in the town and life. Through the book she had lots of new experiences and learned a lot. This knowledge caused significant changes in her characteristics and perspective. As the novel progressed, she has grown up. She has become a better person. At the beginning of the book, Scout was not a nice child. She had hard times controlling herself, and usually she was not able to. She knew Atticus wouldn't like it if he heard of her fighting, but still she fought a lot, like the time she got angry to Cecil Jacobs and fought him (pg. 99). She was also mean and rude, which can easily be seen as she got angry and protested it when Walter poured syrup all over his dinner (pg. 32). As she was young, she also was not able to look at things from other people's perspective. This could easily be seen in her first day of school, as she only saw things from her point of view, never caring about her teacher's perspective (pg. 26). Her youth also ...
In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout Finch tries to please her father, but living with no mother it’s hard to know how to act. It’s natural to follow Jem, her brother, when that is her only friend through out the years. Imagine hearing gossip about your father from friends, neighbors, and even your own cousin. Scout had to push through all of the gossip and believe in her father. Throughout the novel Scout shows how social she can be. To Kill a Mockingbird is a great novel that keeps you reading. Scout has a positive effect on events such as at the jail, she was the reason that the mob left. She also always curious so she is more mature than most kids her age. Through the journey of the trial she shows how hot-tempered, tomboyish, and mature she can be.
When Scout goes to the courtroom to hear Atticus speak and fight for Tom’s freedom, she realizes that Atticus is trying his hardest to defend an innocent man. Finally, Scout grows through her interest in school by learning about Hitler and the horrible historical events that have happened in the world. Her maturity is expressed by what she has learned about the world around her and can apply those things to her everyday life. Moreover, Scout has matured greatly in the novel and she has learned many lessons about life, family, and womanhood.
Scout is the narrator of the whole book. She is the young daughter of a lawyer, Atticus. They live in Maycomb County with Scout's brother and Aunt in the 1930's. At the beginning of the book, she doesn’t know much about the prejudice of Southern America. She basically knows nothing about prejudice. She thinks every person is the same as her. But she finds that out at last. She also finally finds out that most people are nice. She just has to put herself in those people's situations. "As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else left for us to learn, except possibly algebra" (Lee pg. #). This statement shows that she understands the prejudice and people's thinking, at last. That makes her life a lot different.
Scout first learns to show compassion and tolerance by refusing to go to school because she hates Miss Caroline. Atticus tells her that, 'First of all, if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along better with all kinds of folks. 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'; (30). When Atticus told her this, she began to accept Miss Caroline as well as other people's differences and opinions.
In the book “To Kill A Mockingbird” Scout has changed the most in the Novel. The first way Scout changed was that she went from using no filter to forming a filter. The second way she changed was that she used to wear just overalls and now she’s slowly starting to wear dresses. The last reason is that she is losing her innocence.
Characters in a book not only tell the story, but teach the reader a lesson. To Kill a Mockingbird is a book that exhibits racism and gives the readers a taste of what it was like in the 1930’s. One of the several major characters of this book is Jean Louise Finch, better known as Scout. She matured greatly because of women characters such as Miss Maudie, Calpurnia, and her Aunt Alexandra. In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout teaches all readers the lesson of how it is important to have a motherly figure in your life; she does so through possessing the traits of being curious, tomboy, and hot tempered.
She tells the story with much curiosity of the era she is in, unable to understand the world she lives in and why the black were inferior to the white people. Her soft childlike sense brings comfort to the readers. As we come to the end of the book Scout is older but still gives us a kids perspective.
In the beginning of the story, she was very ignorant and immature to racism “Catching Walter Cunningham in the schoolyard gave me some pleasure, but when I was rubbing his nose in the dirt…”(Harper Lee 30)This quote shows how immature Scout was by fighting over pointless reasons and had little things get her upset. Later on in the novel, Scout started to mature and understand the harsh realities of the world. When Tom Robinson gets arrested and sent for jail, she realizes that people are judged because the color of their skin and she states “ ...Nothin’s wrong with him. Naw,Jem, I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.”( Harper Lee 304) This is where Scout really grows up and knows that should not be black or white people or rich and poor people, we should just be
In To Kill a Mockingbird Scout is an ordinary tom girl in a small town in the south. In the beginning of the book Scout goes from being immature, curious , and innocent to understanding and mature. Not knowing much because of her young age she is faced with the tough reality of the real world and is forced to grow up.
She was shocked that Tom Robinson got found guilty of a crime he didn’t commit. The idea of treating Blacks unfairly confused her. As Atticus gave life advice, this concept became a bit more understandable, “Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.” (p.321) Scout’s lack of understanding about life, was enough to move into a quest of understanding about life. She moved towards empathy and transcended into her own stereotyped assumption regarding time on Earth due to that
Scout starts off her early years as a categorizer, who thinks she knows it all. Later, she goes from judging others because of their reputations, to looking at things from other people’s perspective, something Atticus taught her. As the book moves on, she grows up and learns about Maycomb’s societal norms. Most importantly, as Scout grows her morality, she becomes able to see the goodness in all human beings, even the flawed and evil
As the story unwinds, she matures into a less judgemental person. For instance, when she is in the classroom she is judged by Miss Caroline because of the way she is reading. Miss Caroline judges Scout because she feels that her way of teaching is the only way. This reflects a narrow minded attitude that is prevalent in many characters encountered in the book. However, Scout does the same thing to Walter Cunningham and Mrs. Dubose. Walter was over for dinner one night and she judged him because he doused his dinner in syrup. Scout did not agree with the way Walter used the syrup, so she made a big commotion which caused Walter great embarrassment in front of her family. In another instance, Scout judged Mrs. Dubose for the way she made Scout and Jem read to her everyday for what seemed an incessant amount of time. Scout did not agree with this because she did not understand why Mrs. Dubose was making them read to her. Scout thought it was weird and unusual to be made to read as their punishment, but little did she know that Mrs. Dubose was trying to kick her morphine addiction because she would not use the entire time they were they reading. This is another instance of Scout judging someone due to her inability to see multiple sides of a situation. Scout’s character demonstrates the increasing need to develop empathy as one
In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, a young girl named Scout is shown to overcome her age and mature throughout the scenarios of the story; two important ones being Scout’s awareness for Boo Radley and the Tom Robinson trial . In addition, I have greatly changed this year by realizing how precious and stunning life is through volunteering at a hospital and seeing more unfortunate people.
In the beginning of the book scout is young and not yet matured, she looks to everyone as if they are inferior to herself due to their differences. An example of this would be Boo Radley. Scout thinks of him as this big aggressive giant that is out to kill her. “Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands were bloodstained—if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time.” This is the quote of Scout describing what Boo Radley looks like in her mind.
Another way Scout changed a lot was in the way she treated Boo Radley. At the beginning of the book Jem, Dill, and herself enjoyed playing "Boo Radley" as a game and tormenting him by trying to have a chance to see him or prove their bravery by touching the house. As time went on, Scout's fears and apprehensions regarding the Radley place slowly disappeared. She mentions how "the Radley Place had ceased to terrify me (her)..." As she matures and is more able to take care of herself, she realizes more and more that Boo Radley is a human being, just like herself.