Scout Finch Mature

The character in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird who changed the most was Scout, otherwise known as Jean-Louise Finch. Scout was an adventurous, intelligent young girl who is extremely curious. She tells the story as an adult, but she is only 5 years old at the beginning of the summer. She is very smart for her age, and matures the most out of all the characters in the novel. In the beginning of the book, she started out young, innocent, and naive. She was smart, but unaware. She could read before she started school, and still had millions of questions. She was afraid of her mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley, but was curious about him. Due to the influence of her brother, Jem, and her father, Atticus, she was a very adventurous child. She knew how to speak her mind, which is surprising for a girl her age. She'd say things such as "I had received the impression that fine folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had," (130) and would seem wise beyond her young age.

Scout was all this and more, but she still was not quite mature.

She begins to understand more about the people in her town, like the Ewell's, her father, and Tom. The trial helped her mature because she learned about the racism in her town, and how wrong it was to be a racist. When she learns about the living style of the Ewell's, she accepts it, and does not make fun of it. Scout learns about Atticus's job, and how hard it is to defend someone, let alone a black man, in court. She respects him for that. He mentioned that "[...] whenever a white man [cheats] a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash" (220) and this taught Scout about how disgusting racists can be. All of this helps her mature because these people are subtly teaching her how to grow and become a better person by using their own