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Who Is The Protagonist In To Kill A Mockingbird

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To Kill a Mockingbird In the Novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, the author Harper lee uses protagonist to express the idea of how fear will make someone make the wrong decision. The protagonist in this story is a six year old tomboy named Jean Louise Finch but they call her scout. Scout is very intelligent, by the time she starts school she already knows how to read. Even though, she was tough and brave she had some fears too. She would usually get drawn into schemes by her 10 year old brother Jem. For instance, if she were to try and back out of something jem would tell her see i knew it you are just like any other girl. In conclusion, scout has many experiences and sometimes they are good and sometimes they are bad. One of scouts fears is her neighbor, Boo Radley. She is afraid of him because she heard the rumor of how he tried to stab his dad and became a crazy man. Not only does she misjudge Boo, but will also realize it was a mistake. “Every night-sound i heard from my cot on the back porch was magnified three-fold; every scratch of feet on …show more content…

She then starts to realize everything Boo did. For example, Boo was the one who put the drapes on her when Miss Maudie's house burned down. “Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.”(31.23) When Scout finally meets Boo, she sees herself differently. Her father Atticus may have been right when he told her putting yourself in another persons shoes allows you to understand them better. Lastly, scout realized that misjudging Boo was a big mistake because he turned out to someone

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