Character Analysis Of Scout In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

As Mark Z. Danielewski, an American fiction author, once said, "Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of 'not knowing’.” Scout is a young girl who develops and matures in the bildungsroman novel To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee. Scout learns that she must look at things from a different perspective when she does not know what is occurring in her ever-changing world. In this novel, Scout develops her character in being a young lady and learns about the world and people around her through her Aunt Alexandra’s advice, and her attempt to learn about Boo Radley. Scou prefers to Wear dingy and ragged clothes, but her Aunt Alexandra is always telling her to grow up and be more ladylike. It all starts when

This is the start of Aunt Alexandra being hard on Scout's behavior. Aunt Alexandra is hard on Scout because she agrees with the gender roles and standards of her generation. She becomes very upset that Scout does not follow those roles and standards. But, after years and years of criticism, Scout notices that even if she does not want to be like Aunt Alexandra, she will have to grow up at some point. During the rough times Maycomb experiences after Tom Robinson’s case, Scout realizes that if her Aunt could be “a lady at a time like this”, she could also (318). This moment was a big step for Scout because when she realizes this, it shows the good impact Aunt Alexandra has on her overall. Scout’s aunt would consistently push her to grow up and be more ladylike and feminine, which overall changes Scout for the better. This

Throughout the novel, she grows curious about him and learns lessons that help her understand the unspoken rules of Maycomb along the way. Scout and her brother, Jem, begin by putting notes in Boo’s yard and bug him to know if he is alive. But, one day their father Atticus mentions it is not nice to bother people to the extent that they have to go out of their way to tell them to stop. Jem and Scout would not like it if that would happen to them and they were “doing the same thing to Mr. Radley” (65). When Atticus says this, Scout realizes she must be nicer to people and not bug them so much. This shows she is maturing and learning to set boundaries. Later on, Attcisu humiliates an evil man named Bob Ewell in court and attempts to kill Scout and Jem. Luckily, someone comes to save them, and “the man takes Jem inside,” that man is “Mr. Arthur Radley” (352, 362). When Scout learns that Mr. Radley was alive and had actually been there watching Jem and Scout play all this time she realizes that even though Boo is never physically there, he will always have her back. This shows that Scout knows people don’t have to always be there all the time to be heroes. Scout also shows maturity when she uses what Atticus always tells her, that she will never really know a person until she walks around in their shoes. Scout will always try her best to look at the other person’s side of a story,