How Does Scout Mature In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Scout a six-year-old girl also known as Jean Louise narrates the book to kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Being a tomboy at heart comes at a cost. Scout works hard not to "act like a girl" by wearing overalls instead of dresses and beating up other children who provoke her because of her ways. She learns a lot of life lessons and becomes a stronger character throughout the book. Growing up in a small southern town, you get to know everyone after a while, being a little six-year-old make scout very curious minded, in wanting to know everything that’s going on. She wrote the book in the perspective of her as a little girl and learning how to figure life lessons out as she becomes more mature and older.

Scouts personality is very unique in the sense that she is very smart for her age. This girl is also very strong willed and her innocence often gets her into trouble with her family and with society. She was a brave little girl, who was very adventurous. Her spunky personality leads her to do a lot of fun stuff with her siblings. She was very much a hardhead when …show more content…

At this age she didn’t understand why dressing and acting like a lady was important. she tries her best to act “lady like.” But the concept of having to act proper and look nice just wasn’t something she thought was that important at that age. She may have gotten picked on but that didn’t stop her from doing what she did. Later, in the book she finds out why it is important and kind of changes the way she acts and dresses, because it was a self-reflection. "you're mighty dressed up, miss jean Louise. Where are your britches today?" 307. Aunt Alexandra was dedicated about my apparel. I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches; when I said I could do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn't supposed to be doing things that required pants.