In “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, a young girl named Jean Louise Finch (also nicknamed Scout) is the narrator and protagonist of the novel. At the beginning of the book, Scout is an innocent, friendly 6-year-old girl who has no experience with the evil things in the world. Her father Atticus Finch has raised her to become who she is, a tomboy. Scout is also faced with prejudice and how she copes with it helps add more personality and character. She is more intelligent than her peers and some still disagree with her learning ways. Towards the end we find that Scout is strong, adventurous and the type of person that will rise above others with kindness.
A new year is a new start. Scout Finch is attending her first year of school with her new teacher Miss Caroline. Since her father Atticus Finch has been teaching and mentoring Scout her whole life, She’s already above her skill level. Her teacher is appalled that she already knows how to read, instead of being impressed. “Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more.” (by Harper Lee, Chapter 2), This was said by Scout because Miss Caroline doesn’t like that Atticus taught Scout how to read before she started school. She said that it would interfere
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Scout is a tomboy. While most girls in Scout’s position would be wearing dresses and learning manners, Scout wears overalls and learns to climb trees with jem and Dill. Aunt Alexandra tells Scout to act like a lady and wear a dress so she can be “a ray of sunshine in her father’s lonely life’. Sometimes her brother criticizes her for ‘acting like a girl,’ other times he complains that she's not girly enough. Many of the boys at school are intimidated by her strength, yet she is told she must learn to handle herself in a ladylike