How Scout Grows Up

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How Scout Grows Up A young girl happily skips down the front steps of her large Victorian home and joyfully makes her way down the sidewalk. As she walks, she kicks rocks and plays with a stick she found in a nearby garden. She is wearing rugged overalls, a red t-shirt, and dirty, white shoes that maybe once were the color they were intended to be. She reaches the center of town, which looks like a sweltering, run down, mosquito infested, wasteland to most, but appears to be an interesting place full of adventure through her eyes. The youth described above is six-year-old Jean Louise “Scout” Finch. In the powerful novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Scout is like most children: loud, playful, and energetic. She can be rude, demanding, and rowdy, which causes a problem for some around her. Scout is naïve at this stage in her life, and has much to learn about society, etiquette, and most of all, morals. In her small town full of gossip, lies, racism, and more, will Scout be able to blossom into a mature, wholesome, young woman? Scout is a rowdy, disrespectful, and naïve. Over the course of the novel, she changes dramatically into a new person: someone with tact, respect, and good morals. When the story begins, her rowdiness, disrespect, and naivety make Scout an immature young girl. At this point in To Kill a Mockingbird, life is pretty calm, as usual in the sleepy southern town of Maycomb, Alabama. Scout and her brother Jeremy “Jem” Finch spend their days exploring the fields and woodlands around their home, carefree and happy. Scout is very rowdy. When her first school year begins, all Scout wants to do is please her teacher. Her plans to impress fail when she defends a poor classmate, Walter Cunningham, from their teacher, Miss Caroline, who insisted on buying Walter a lunch. Ms. Caroline thinks Scout is just trying to be smart, and scolds her. Scout
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