A place where children run free, play until called home. A place where everyone knows everyone. A place where there are two communities within one town, the black and the white. A place where no matter what you want to think, you're forced to stay within that one community you’re a part of. This is the place where Scout Finch grew up. Along with her brother Jem and her new friend Dill, Scout learns new things about the town she lives in. From the personalities of her neighbors to the segregation within the town of Maycomb, she is exposed to the real world around her. At only eight years old, Scout is looked at as being too young to know the reality of the lives of the people around her. Scout, along with being much smarter than most children her age, doesn’t act like society’s definition of a lady. She runs around in the dirt wearing overalls and doesn’t do any of the things that ladies do. Society’s …show more content…
They expect her to wear a dress and stay inside to talk with the other ladies. Scout is anything but, she dresses in overalls and enjoys running around with Jem and Dill. She often comes home at night covered in mud or dirt. “I would find the living room overrun with Maycomb ladies, sipping, whispering, fanning, and I would be called: ‘Jean Louise, come speak to these ladies.’ When I appeared in the doorway, Aunty would look as if she regretted her request; I was usually mud-splashed or covered with sand” (Lee 176). Aunt Alexandra grew up when all ladies were wearing dresses and staying inside to talk or do household chores. This is not Scout, who loves to run around outside and tends to pick a lot of fights. She doesn’t mind if she gets dirty or rips her clothes. Aunt Alexandra despises how Scout acts and dresses and tries to fix what she thinks is Atticus’ mistake. She later finds that she doesn’t mind Scout’s ways and eventually stops fighting