Why Scout is Unique Would you think a girl is unique when she is outspoken, dresses and acts like a boy, and knows how to read and write at a young age in the 1930s? In the story To Kill A Mockingbird, By Harper Lee, Harper Lee tells about a very unique girl who lives in a Southern town that is going through a tough time with racial issues. The book is about racism. It tells the story about a little white girl who is telling about a black mans struggle. Scout is unique because she could read and write. She is also outspoken and acts and dresses like a boy. Some may argue that Scout is not an important in American Literature, they are wrong because in the story she and her family are going through a very important time in history. Scout is
Scouts most important goals are, to marry Dill, and to get Boo Radley to come out.
Scout is quite a confident character in the To Kill A Mockingbird novel especially because she is able to fight boys without any fear. She might be a small girl but she has one big heart, possessing the virtue of caring by always seeing the best of others and as well as having great concern for others. The way she acts or the clothes that she wears, she can come across as a tomboy because unlike other girls who wear dresses she rocks it in her cozy fashionable overalls.
In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Jean Louise “Scout” Finch shows us various aspects of her personality, in her actions, thoughts, and words. Her home life affects this greatly as her father Atticus raised her with equality and a sense of freedom. Scout speaks her mind and does not confine to the standards of society at the time. Scouts intelligence is evident on her first day of school, when her teacher discovers her ability to read. Miss Caroline is off put as she was not expecting any of her students to be this advanced. Scout realizes this when “…she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste.” (Pg.22) Her intelligence is also shown by her ability to realize when to use physical force in an argument,
Scout loves to read which is why I chose a book. Before she started to go to school her father Atticus taught her how to read. This later caused her to get into trouble with her teacher who told her that she could no longer read at home. Scout loved reading too much to stop, so she asked if she could quit school instead. Atticus told her if she would continue to got to school then he will continue to read with her at home. Towards the very end of the book Atticus read to her “Gray ghost”. Reading was so important to scout which is why it was so significant to her.
In “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee is about a six year old girl named Scout. She lives in Maycomb, Alabama. In the story it talks about her life problems she has with her friends, family, and community around her. She is constantly reminded of hate and racism towards others. Scouts intelligence, curiosity and exposure to mature events, leads to the loss of her innocence.
Everyone's choices are seen to be right to themselves. Although, those choices are deemed wrong by another. Scout made some choices that he believed to himself that they were the right choices, but to adults they analyzed them to be in the wrong.
When I was in elementary school, I can recall being the only mixed-race child in my class. Although I did not realize it at the time, the fact that I am biracial is what separated me from others, trapping me in a no man’s land. I was never enough of one ethnicity to be a part of the Asian or Caucasian group. As a result, I was alone most of the time and did not have many friends, just like Scout Finch from the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. In the novel, Scout does not fit in with a specific group: she is too wild to befriend other girls her age, and cannot hang out with boys because she is a girl. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the theme that being unique is not a quality to be ashamed of is developed through Scout. Despite her differences, Scout justifies this theme by questioning her teacher’s opinion on
Scout is a young girl who’s growing and trying to understand the world around her. Growing up can be difficult when the community around her are discriminating and providing a hostile environment for a child. The influential decisions made the people are taken into consideration of how the child is influenced. Scout is an exception to this belief because she has a guardian that's highly respected and influential to scout. This is shown as a positive influence that contrast the highly racial discrimination in Maycomb.
In the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”, Lee (1960) explains a story by using Scout’s perspective who is a 6 year-old girl. The story was set in the small rural town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the great depression period in the United States. When Atticus, who is Scout’s father and a virtuous and impartial lawyer, defended for a black man Tom who was accused of raping a white girl, the residents in the town debated that Atticus is insane because he helped a “nigger” and thought that this event brought shame on them. Scout asked Atticus the reason why he defended for a black person. Atticus said “The main one is, if I didn’t I couldn’t hold up my head in town, I couldn't represent this county in the legislature.”(p100). Couldn’t he hold up his
From the narrator, Scout’s, point of view it seems like she likes her family, although it seems that her dad kind of stays out of things in her life. Scout says, “Jem and I found our father satisfactory: he played with us, read to us, and treated us with courteous detachment.” (6) This makes me think that although they like Atticus as a father and he does normal stuff with them like read and play, he isn't the type of father who wants to know everything that they are doing and be all up in their life. He is courteously detached from their life. It seems that he enjoys spending time with them, but doesn't go out of his way to be with them and know what is going on. Another quote that makes me thing that Scout likes her family is when Atticus
Scout Finch and Harper Lee both grew up being the youngest child and playing with their older brothers. They also both grew up with mother figures that weren’t necessarily apparent in their everyday lives, as Scout’s mother died when Scout was only two and Harper’s mother suffered from a mental illness and rarely left the house. Both the girls grew up boyish, and I believe Harper Lee wished to showcase that not every girl grows up as a ‘girly girl’ and that some simply wish to play in the dirt and run around with the boys.
Dak Prescott, a famous football player once said, “I've been through a lot off the
Most readers believe that Scout would be the main character, although she is very important to this novel, the main character would be Atticus. Throughout the book, Atticus has shown how important he was to the novel. During the book he tot Scout and Jem how important it is to stay strong with your opinion no matter who disagrees or tries to turn you against your beliefs.
Scout is a 8 year old girl who lives with her dad, Atticus, brother, Jem, and maid, Calpurnia. The character Scout is in the book To Kill a Mockingbird. The readers will usually find Scout playing outside and imagining with Jem and Dill, her friend. Scout is a tomboy who doesn’t care to be ladylike, she stays true to her character, and does not like school.
Over the course of this book, Scout is a character that changes significantly in the way she thinks. Her way of thinking changes because she has many encounters that has, in a way, forced her to have to adjust her way of approaching situations. One of the main ones, for example, is that she learns to be calm instead of fighting.