At the beginning of TKAM it goes without saying that Scout seemed a little immature and childish, like how you’d expect a child to act. Not necessarily her personality because she’s been very smart from the beginning but the way she acts towards things and how she goes about doing things is often childish. She’s just problematic, but as we get deeper into the book we see a pretty obvious change. I think one of the major early signs of her “immaturity” was how she talked about her dad and how she was embarrassed by him. Though we’ve already done an essay on this topic, it’s directly related to this one as well. She may have had her reasons for her embarrassment but once you grow up and realize that your parents do everything …show more content…
When Cecil Jacobs calls him a slur, Scout almost got into a fight with him and you could say that’s the opposite of maturity but I would look at it a different way. Look at it in terms of her loyalty growing and her wanting to defend the people close to her as opposed to her just starting fights. We see this again at Finch’s landing on Christmas when Francis insults Atticus and Dill, so in return Scout cusses him out and beats him up. Again, don’t look at it like she’s just losing her temper, look at it like she’s standing up for her family. “He is not” I roared” (Scout, page 94) and “This time, I split my knuckle to the bone on his front teeth” (Scout, page 96) You can tell how bothered she is when people do things or talk about the people she loves. It’s all pure …show more content…
In today’s world this wouldn’t be as big of a deal, but back then when racism was much higher it seems as if hearing a black persons side especially in the case of allegedly raping a white women is unheard of. I suppose this does stem partially from the fact that Atticus doesn’t discriminate and he raised her well, but she’s still around extremely racist people all the time so the fact that she can overlook that and do the right thing shows maturity on its own. “Well, if everybody in Maycomb knows what kind of folks the Ewells are they’d be glad to hire Hellen.” (Scout, page 141) This shows Scout overlooking the whole skin color thing to defend Tom’s wife and she doesn’t understand why people won’t hire her, showing that skin color means nothing to her. She even questioned the accusation from the Ewells and regardless of if she likes them or not, they’re white and would usually get the benefit of the doubt 10 times out of 10. If you ask me, that's pretty mature for this day in