Character Analysis: To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

To Kill A Mockingbird Scout Finch once said “Atticus had promised me he would wear me out if he ever heard of me fighting anymore; I was far too old and too big for such childish things, and the sooner I learned to hold in, the better off everybody would be”. Harper Lee writes in the book To Kill A Mockingbird in the perspective of a young girl named scout who throughout her life grows up in Maycomb, a small city, where racism is big. Scout matures and loses her innocence throughout the story. For starters, she learns how to have self control. Scout had just started school and Cecil Jacobs, a boy at her school, was teasing Scout about calpurnia, the Finch’s cook. Scout has problems controlling her anger and has gotten into fights before,

Scout has a brother named Jem and Scout and Jem are both friends with a boy who comes down only for the summers named Dill. Scout, Jem, and Dill talk to Mr. Raymond, a white man who people think is a drunk and a crackhead who likes to hang with black folks, and find out he isn’t a drunk or a crackhead, they also find out that he likes to hang around black folks because that’s the way he want to live. Mr. Raymond says to Jem, Scout, and Jem “Cry about the simple hell people give other people… cry about the hell white people give colored folks without even stopping to think that they’re people too” (Lee pg. 269). Scout loses her innocence by learning about prejudice. Scout learns throughout the book that colored folks get treated poorly and differently from white folks. Tom Robinson was found guilty and Atticus was disappointed and learned things from this case so he decided to tell his kids the lessons he learned. Atticus tells Scout and Jem “As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your like, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it… whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who is he, or how rich he is, or how fine of a family he comes from, that white man is trash” (Lee pg. 295). Scout learns about prejudice when Atticus says this because she learns that it’s not fair how black folks are treated by white folks and how Tom Robinson’s case isn’t fair because he’s a black man