Scout Finch

Scout Finch

Scout finch is like any other human being when it comes to growing up. She goes through some unique, as well as frightening, experiences which helped to build her into the young woman she eventually became. In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout is shown to be quite naïve in the beginning, but as the book goes on certain situations occur that teach her valuable lessons about life, as well as herself. It is very clear that this book is a bildungsroman that deals with Scout being a dynamic character. Chapters one through nine clearly show Scout’s naïve and immature stage through her actions, words, and thoughts. In chapter one, Scout thinks that Calpurnia is a terrible person and claims that “Cal always won, mainly because Atticus took her side” (7).In reality, Scout did not yet realize that Calpurnia was acting like a guardian/parent is supposed to. It is now clear that she was a little Naïve in the beginning , but she was also inconsiderate of other people’s feelings and lives, which is shown in chapter three when Walter Cunningham comes over to the Finch house for dinner and Scout says “But he’s gone and drowned his dinner in syrup” (32). By her saying this it shows that she does not yet understand that not everyone is the same, but in chapter four she has a small moment of, what seems to be, maturity. Chapter four is when Scout, Jem, and Dill start playing the game about Boo Radley and his family, but at the very end of the chapter Atticus catches them playing the game and disapproves. “Atticus’s arrival was the second reason I wanted to quit the game. The first reason happened the day I rolled into the Radley front yard. T...

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...ime, but it’s not until the very end of the book, after Atticus reads her a story, that Scout finally understands that people are not always what they seem to be. “...when they finally saw him, why he hadn’t done any of those things… Atticus, he was real nice…” (376). Scout related the book that Atticus read to her to the experiences she had with Boo Radley and after all that time she finally understands that he is not the scary, cruel, or weird person that Jem, Dill and she thought. So in the end, Scout really did change into a young women with much more knowledge and wisdom than she had to start off with and just by reading the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, there are many lessons to be learned about different prejudices, people, and even the world’s court systems, which are all very clearly and creatively shown through the actions of a young girl named Scout Finch.