Scout Finch
Jean Louise “Scout” Finch is a 6 year old girl at the start of the book and grows on us as a sophisticated, cultivated and cultured young woman as we reach the start of part 2. A slim girl, with short dark brown hair, Scout was a tomboy who loved to hang out with her brother, Jem, and Dill. A large fragment of the first part focuses on her virtuousness and incorruptibility. Her first day in school tested the very bases of her youth and innocence. After Miss Caroline repeatedly asks Walter Cunningham to take a few coins and buy himself lunch, Scout stood up and tried explaining the Cunningham’s poverty but unfortunately could not do so. At last she could not control her anger and asks the teacher to stop ‘shamin’ him [as he] hasn’t got a quarter at home to bring’ to school (Chapter 2, Page 28). She also asks miss Maudie why it is a sin to kill a mockingbird and learns that there is no reason to kill an innocent bird that ‘sing their heart out for’ them (Chapter 10, Page 119).
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On the first day of school, the 6-year old was busy ‘rubbing his[Walter’s] nose in the dirt’ for his supposed involvement in Scout’s punishment (Chapter 3, Page 30). She might be seen as an extrovert and rough girl in the book, however it is seen that she is a prudent person too. She even made her older brother into a careful risk-taker who often stopped his shenanigans when her (Scout’s) ‘nagging got the better of [him] (Chapter 5, Page 55). She is also strong-headed and will not hear a single word against her family. When Francis called her father a ‘nigger-lover’, she could not control her rage and ‘split her knuckle to the bone on [Francis’] front teeth’ (Chapter 11, Page 112), an action deemed unethical if Atticus was to