Character Analysis Of Scout In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

In the short story To Kill a Mockingbird, which is taken place during the great depression there lived a young girl named Scout. Scout was a young girl that lived in Maycomb County, Alabama in the early 1930’s. She lived in a society where she was taught to be racist and naive. But over time she grew to be more understanding and lady-like. For instance she started to open to people she never would have, like Boo Radley. She became loving and an open girl rather than judging people who weren’t exactly like her. Scout also understands that there's life outside hers.
Scout is a young girl living during the Great Depression. As any child, she is shaped and affected by the world she lives in. Even though, she has good parents. She’s racist because that's all she sees in her surroundings. For example she says, “ you aren't really a nigger-lover then, are you?” The way she says the N word in context can come off very racist. However, she's
She learns that she is not always the center of attention and to see things in other people's perspective. Atticus finch explains this to scout in the book. "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it". Towards the end of the book, Scout starts considering how others feel and what they are going through when the church accepted Jem and Scout in the church, and they witnessed first hand the racism and how unfair some people were treated.
In a nutshell, Scout has proven to be more mature and more like an adult, because she’s open up to more people, she understands there's a life outside of hers, and she isn't racist and naive anymore. Scout has shown the readers that anyone can change no matter what situation you’re in. Scout lived in a bad part of town where racism, abuse and prejudices exist. With help of Atticus and Boo Radley she became the nice girl she was