Scout's Evolving Perspectives In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

Scout's Evolving Perspectives in To Kill a Mockingbird In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee tells us the story of a small town in Alabama through the eyes of young Jean Louise Finch, better known as Scout. Scout has her different perspectives and opinions on the people in her life. She faces many different reality checks, such as how prejudice and racism are extremely prominent problems in Maycomb, Alabama. As she matures, her perspectives mature with her. Two of the people she changes perspectives on completely are Aunt Alexandra and Arthur Radley. One of these characters is a family member, and the other a stranger, but Scout's opinions on both characters changes as she goes through different experiences every day. Through her

To Scout, Alexandra is a pristine, uptight, annoying, and ignorant woman, who insists that Scout learn the ways of a lady before it is too late. Despite her uptight mind, Scout can't deny that Alexandra is persistent, as she moved into the Finch household in Maycomb to ensure that Scout grows up as a proper lady. The day that Alexandra and Scout were pulled out of their gossip filled tea with the neighbors and were told of Tom Robinson's death was the day that Scout rethought her perspective of Aunt Alexandra. That day she realized that being a lady required courage. It takes courage to hide your feeling and emotions. It takes courage to behave like everything is fine and that your world isn't collapsing around you. Scout sees Alexandra break down slightly, but slowly pull herself together and walk back out into the mass of gossiping ladies, as she knows that any sign of tears or a less than perfectly happy facial expression will not go unnoticed by the eyes of the neighbors. "And so they went, down the rows of laughing women, around the dining room, refilling coffee cups, dishing out goodies as though their only regret was the temporary domestic disaster of losing

Arthur Radley, better known as Boo Radley, is one of Maycomb's biggest mysteries. Scout and Jem have always been taken with the idea that there is a monster of a man who hasn't left his house in pure daylight for nearly fifteen years. Scout's first thoughts about Boo Radley were that he is a tall, violent, and insane giant who shuffles his feet when he walks. She believes that he is less than a human after hearing tall tales of his nightly escapades and the background story of his imprisonment in his own basement. There are many events that lead Scout to doubt who or what Boo Radley really is. From putting a blanket around her to placing gifts in the hole of a tree trunk, Boo reaches out to Scout and Jem and makes them question what he wants. All of their thoughts ended on the night they were jumped my Mr. Bob Ewell. Scout realizes that all of the terrible assumptions about the character of Arthur Radley are fake. If anything, they are the exact opposite of who he really