To Kill A Mockingbird Scout Character Analysis

<br>Later in the book, however, Scout changes. She now tries to control her temper, and is somewhat successful. One example of this is when Cecil Jacobs, another of Scout's classmates, insults Atticus by saying that Atticus defended Niggers. Scout remembers that she shouldn't fight, and walks away. "Cecil Jacobs made me forget. He had announced in the schoolyard the day before that Scout Finch's daddy defended niggers… ‘You gonna take that back boy?' ‘You gotta make me first!' he yelled… ‘I drew a bead on him, remembered what Atticus had said, then dropped my fists and walked away, ‘Scout's a cow-ward!' ringing in my ears" (80-81). Scout also learns to respect and value

“ It was a melancholy little drama, woven from bits and scraps of gossip and neighborhood legend: Mrs. Radley had been beautiful until she married Mr. Radley and lost all her money. She also lost most of her teeth, her hair, and her right forefinger (Dill’s contribution. Boo bit it off one night when he couldn’t find any cats and squirrels to eat.)...” (Lee 52). Just like The Gray Ghost, Boo was judged by his neighbors simply because he was peculiar to the entire town of Maycomb.

Scout has her own ideas when it comes to following the rules. She likes to follow her brother and doesn't listen to him when he said don't run out to Atticus. This is the outcome of her surprise appearance on page 152.

Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.”

Scout, Jem, and Dill work many summers to try to get Boo to come out of the Radley house for the first time in many years. Jem had been told many things about Boo in his short years in Maycomb, and he tells his sister Scout about the ‘monster’, saying, “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” (chap. 1). Jem’s ideas about Boo are very biased toward rumors that can be heard around Maycomb. This shows how Maycomb’s people often judge before they know, seeing as no one has seen Boo Radley in over twenty years and people are prejudiced to believing the unknown is always bad. Prejudice and rumors can often not be trusted and Boo Radley is no exception. After Miss Maudie’s house catches fire and half the town rushes outside to watch it burn, Atticus tells Scout, “someday you should thank him for covering you up” then Scout asks, “Thank Who?” And gets a response from Atticus, “Boo Radley. You were too busy looking at the fire, you didn’t even notice when he put the blanket around you” (chap. 8). Boo Radley is not really a bad person, he

As girls grow in life, they mature and change into women. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Scout, the main character, begins to mature into a woman. In the beginning of the book, she is a tomboy who cannot wait to pick a fistfight with anyone, but at the end, she lowers her fists because her father, Atticus, tells her not to fight. Scout's views of womanhood, influenced by how Aunt Alexandra, Miss Maudie, and Calpurnia act, make her think more about becoming a woman and less of a tomboy.

She even lets Cecil Jacobs call her a “cow-ward” in order to keep her promise. The situation shows how much respect she has for Atticus. Not only does Scout have to endure such harsh language, she has to keep herself from lashing out. This perseverance demonstrates change from the beginning of the book to at the current point. After Walter Cunningham caused her to be embarrassed in front of the classroom, Scout states, “Catching Walter Cunningham in the schoolyard gave me some pleasure, but when… ‘He made me start off on the wrong foot.’” (Lee, 30) The start of the book shows Scout using revenge to justify her anger. Contrasting to her current situation, she grows and learns to not settle her emotions through physical means. She does unfortunately snap when Francis insults her. “Francis looked at me carefully, concluded that I had been sufficiently subdued, and crooned softly, ‘N****r-lover…” (Lee, 112) The fury clouds her mind and proceeds to harm Francis profusely, where she receives consequences from Uncle Jack. Even so, growth is shown in the situation when Scout requests, “Promise you won’t tell Atticus about this. He-he asked me one time not to let anything I heard about him make me mad, an’ I’d ruther him

Boo being the mysterious neighbor that never comes out many rumors formed around him like when Jem said “ 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…” (16). All these rumors made it seem like Boo was a monster and the adults played along. On the contrary all of these false accusations came to an end when Boo steps up and defends Scout against Bob Ewell. He was a sickly white and acted almost childlike. Boo wasn’t a bad person but all the rumors that had built up made it seem that way and Scout learning the error of her ways decides to actually interact with him by walking him home. She sees after that all lies that were told were mere gossip and without getting to know the person better the rumor could never be broken. Not following rumor any longer and instead allowing people a chance and showing their true

“To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee is an exceedingly powerful novel. It includes many significant minor themes such as racism and hatred which leave the reader to have grown more attentive to the past once they complete the book. The book takes place in Maycomb County Alabama during the great depression. During this period there was a great deal of hate and prejudice towards people of color, in addition to a great regard to social class. The novels protagonists, Atticus Finch a well-respected lawyer and his children Jeremy “Jem” Finch and Jean Louise “Scout” Finch are a few of the towns occupants who respect others regardless of social class or race. For this reason, Atticus has no objections

Boo was extremely misunderstood. In chapter one, we find out that the entire neighborhood is afraid of Radley and his family. Everyone has made up stories about The Radleys. According to their neighbor, Miss Stephanie Crawford, he stabbed his dad with some scissors. In multiple chapters, Scout mentions that people have said that Boo eats wild animals. In chapter four, they mention that he bit off his mother’s fingers because he could not find any cats or squirrels to eat. Due to these stories about Boo, people wanted to kill him. Boo also never left his house. Scout’s brother Jem thought that Boo never left his house because his dad had him chained to the bed. While talking about misunderstanding people, Atticus hints at Boo and Walter Ewell. He tells her,

Scout, the essential character who tells the story through her point of view illustrates several character traits such as curiosity, intelligence and tomboy.

Boo Radley is just a quiet guy, who wants peace and quiet because he just to be left alone and in the book Scout, Jem and Dill try to make Boo come out with a fishing pole with a note at the end. Boo does nothing to harm anybody just like a mockingbird, mockingbirds just make music for people to enjoy and they don’t eat people’s gardens and Boo is just quiet and enjoys being inside away from the world outside. Boo just helps people out when they need it like when Jem and Scout went to his house they had to escape so they decided to go under the fence and Jem had got stuck and his pants had ripped and then Jem went backed his pants and they were sewed up like someone was knowing he was coming back.

From naivety to being quick-tempered, Scout progresses from childlike innocence to being a hotheaded little girl whose physical violence got the best of her when tension between civilians of Maycomb started to rise as Scout’s father, Atticus Finch, decided to be a lawyer in defense of a black man who has been accused of raping a white female. This important trial became the talk of the town, and even spilled over to the kids. So at school, Scout was was frequently approached and teased by other children because her father was defending someone who was black. At first, Scout used to get into fights with the other children in order to protect her family and stand up for her father. But as this fighting became more and more common, Scout told Atticus about these problems at school, and he advised her to rise above the fighting and stop the arguing with the other kids. And the next time Scout was teased she “remembered what Atticus had said, then dropped my fists and walked away... It was the first time I [she] ever walked away from a fight" (102). Scout’s maturity is beginning to grow since old Scout would have taken any opportunity to fight and argue in order to protect her family’s reputation, but

Many of the Finch’s neighbors in Maycomb had stories, or more accurately, rumors, about Boo that characterized him as a rabid monster in human form. As the story progressed, these bits of information that Scout and Jem thought they understood about Boo became increasingly implausible. Jem’s first experience with this was when Boo had folded, sewn, and placed his pants on top of the fence in his backyard where they had been snagged a few days prior; Scout’s was when Boo stealthily placed a blanket on her cold shoulders the night when Mrs. Maudie's house burned down. The final revelation of his pure nature was when Scout, “...finally saw him” at the end of the novel and realized, “...he hadn’t done any of those things…he was real nice” (Lee chapter 31). Boo in fact, was as innocent as a

In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout is one of the main characters and the narrator. During the time the book begins, she is a little 6 year-old girl who is mature for her age, and she continues to mature as the book progresses. Over the course of the novel, Scout develops an exceptional character which is constantly changing from the effects of different events and characters. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee uses the minor characters Boo Radley, Miss Maudie, and Aunt Alexandra to help develop Scout into a strong and compassionate human being from the innocent child she used to be.