To Kill A Mockingbird Scout Character Analysis

From a Child’s Perspective

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a novel about two siblings growing up in a town called Maycomb. Scout, one of the main characters in the novel, is the character that had shown the most change throughout the novel. Scout, as characterized in the novel, is an intelligent, insecure, and respectful person.

Throughout the story, Scout is intelligent because of her love of reading. She would read things such as a newspaper, books, or anything she could find. At school however, she wasn’t allowed to continue to read because her teacher, Miss Caroline, told her it “might interfere with her learning” when it mentions in the novel “Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere …show more content…
During her trip with Jem to Calpurnia’s church, Scout heard about black people being segregated from white people not too long ago. When Jem invited Walter Cunningham to their house for lunch one day, Atticus told Scout to not mind Walter’s habits when she noticed him pour syrup onto the plate when he was eating. Consequently, Calpurnia had Scout eat in the kitchen when she commented on his unique behavior. Later in the novel, Scout acted respectful when she wanted to mention Boo Radley in the corner of the room during the section where it mentions “I half pointed to the man in the corner, but brought my arm down, lest Atticus reprimand me for pointing. It is impolite to point,” (Lee 362).

In conclusion, Scout is a character in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Throughout the novel, Scout was being characterized as an intelligent, insecure, and also a respectful person. Intelligent because she has a love of reading. Insecure because she wasn’t comfortable when Aunt Alexandra was staying in Maycomb with Atticus, Jem, and her. Respectful because she is learning and understands more about respecting

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