Throughout the story To kill a Mockingbird Scout develops numerous distinct personalities. When the book first started Scout was a young girl. She was portrayed as a tomboy. She fought, she got dirty, she refused to wear dresses and that was just who she was. She began to see that there was more to being ladylike and mature, she changed her clothes, activities, how she see’s the society she lives in, and how she acts. She matured and she began to become more refined. She began to acknowledge more lady-like things like dresses and tea parties.
She started to change the way she acted and the activities she did. She began to act more grown up, people believed the reason she initially acted like such a tomboy was because her mother had died before
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Although she had spent most of her life around Calpurnia she never really cared what she said. As she began to be more ladylike she also started to mature gradually.
One of the most prominent ways Scout began to change was how she began to look at the society she lives in. When Scout was younger she didn’t understand how different races or people with less wealth were treated worse than rich white people. She didn’t even understand the difference between races until the Tom Robinson Trial.She began to see how her Aunt Alexandria treated African Americans badly. By the end of the novel, she has lost most her naivety due to the trial of Tom Robinson.She has learned a lot of prejudice, and racism and the intolerance of people from this trial
In the beginning of the book, Scout was a naive narrow-minded child, by the end she had understood more about tolerance, respect, and compassion. Society in Scout’s town has always been very race and gender based.As she grew up she began to notice how certain people were judged in her town. When she was younger she was greatly influenced by the people around her like the people at her school and her neighbors as well as her family. Scout has matured a lot from her experiences in the