How Is Scout Finch A Dynamic Character

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Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird, was told from the perspective of Scout, Jean Louise, Finch and was a unique blend of Scout’s younger and older self. It was the beginning of summer 1933 in the town of Maycomb Alabama. Maycomb was said to be a tired town. One with grass covered sidewalks and muddy streets. Scout was a meticulous and clever young girl which expressed great amounts of growing up throughout the story. Scout started saying bad words but stopped after it didn’t get attention anymore. Overall Scout showed large improvement upon things in the story and shows great characteristics of growing up.
Scout Finch, one of the protagonists in the story To Kill A Mockingbird was made known about in the first chapter. Scout was talking …show more content…

First off Scout was a dynamic character because her personality and actions changed throughout the story. She had overcome a fighting problem at school, some bad choices, and problems with her father. Fortunately Scout was a very clever person and had picked up on the fact that fighting at school was not good and would get her in trouble. Jem Finch broke up a fight between Scout and Walter Cunningham “your bigger’n {sic} he is… let him go Scout '' said Jem (Lee 30). Scout had a fighting problem at school and Jem had to break it up and teach Scout that fighting was bad so she would stop or Scout would have kept fighting . Equally important Scout was capable of learning things much faster than most kids her age. During school one day Scouts teacher Miss Caroline Fisher said “Now tell your father not to teach you any more” (Lee 23). Clearly Scout had been reading with her dad as she read a whole book when most of her fellow classmates were learning the alphabet. Consequently, Scout was also very meticulous as she knew almost nothing about the court case her dad was fighting in, but by the middle end of the court case she had picked up on many things like why he probably wouldn’t win or be liked afterwards. In chapter 20 Scout learns why Atticus had low hopes of winning the case when Atticus said “This case is as simple as black and white" (Lee 231). Scout had been picking up on these little clues