The story To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee includes a major character, Scout Finch. Scout is a young girl raised around more masculine influences, thus she turned into a tomboy. The town Scout lives in is a small town filled with many racist morals and characters. Scout was raised by her father Atticus Finch and her brother Jem Finch. Scout, Jem, and Atticus live in Maycomb Alabama, dating to the early 1930’s. Scout is shown to be maturing, growing up to be very kind, and along with that, becoming very smart throughout the book To Kill a Mockingbird.
In Thomas Shaffer’s document Growing up good in Maycomb, paragraph 6, it is seen that others are showing Scout when to stand up for herself and when not to stand up for herself by Miss Maudie
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Scout knows it would not be smart to just run away, so she goes up to Miss Caroline and supports her. Back in paragraph 7, it talks about how Atticus being the deadliest shot in Maycomb county changed Scout’s opinions toward Atticus. Scout would now respect Atticus more and not be so naive as to doubt Atticus’s skills. This also shows how kind Scout is, because Atticus still only does office work, which the entire town judges him for, and Scout still loves him for what he does and why he does it. Paragraph 8 goes back to Miss Caroline and how Scout could read, which Miss Caroline disapproved of. Before going to school, Scout would read lots of books for days on end in her treehouse with Jem, showing her intellect is above her grade level. Paragraph 19 emphasizes on Scout’s kind heart by talking about Maycomb’s social family hierarchy. This system claims that the Finches would hate Cunninghams, but Scout was kind enough to fall out of this hierarchy and become friends with Mr. Underwood’s son, Walter Cunningham. Paragraph 35 covers a moment when Scout had a childish moment, but still was smart during the event. Scout got into a physical fight with Jem, but