In Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird,” Scout, a young girl, is majorly influenced by her community and the people around her. The reader learns about characters, settings, social dynamics, and more throughout chapters one to eleven. Scout balances being in an identity crisis, doing well in school, and learning to be a woman all simultaneously. In the early chapters of the narrative, Scout struggles with figuring out who she wants to become. She was told numerous times to “stop acting like a girl,” by her older brother, Jem, and his friend, Dill. She is forced to fit in and act like a boy to play with them. Jem and Dill being her only friends amplifies Scout's desire to be one of them. On the other hand, Scout’s aunt scolds her for wearing trousers and tells …show more content…
Scout’s mother sadly passed away when she was young, but Calpurnia fills the mother role in the Finch family. She teaches her life lessons and helps guide her to being a successful woman. All of these role models and influential people shaped Scout into who she is, into the woman she became. In the later chapters of part one, Atticus becomes the lawyer for a negro, Tom Robinson, who is accused of raping a white woman. This causes an immense amount of commotion within Maycomb and the Finch family. 1930s Alabama was an extremely racist time and place. After Atticus took on this case, everybody in town slandered his name, calling him a “n*gger-lover.” The townspeople went up to his children, Jem and Scout, and said it to them too. This environment that the kids went through at such a young age exposed them to vulgar, racist language and disrespect toward their father. Although the racist language has not yet carried over to Scout, she and Jem have lost their temper multiple times. At the Finch family Christmas party, Francis, Scout’s cousin, called Atticus a “n*gger-lover,” to Scout’s