Is Scout Finch Innocent
Sometimes kids can be too innocent, but not with this little girl named Scout Finch.
In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout Finch is the protagonist. She lives in a town called Maycomb. Scout is a young girl who has a brother nicknamed Jem, and a father named Atticus. Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows Scout Finch as literate, curious, and violent. The first trait scout is portrayed to be is literate. She is above her peers expectations when it comes to her literacy. Scout says “She discovered I was iterate, and looked at me with faint distaste”(Lee 17). Miss Caroline, Scout’s teacher, is in distaste because she was yet to see a young literate child, and because of this, Scout gets unwanted tension between …show more content…
Scout explodes out and says “My curiosity burst:‘Why were you all takin’ up collection for Tom Robinson’s wife?’”(Lee123). Scout asks about this event, because she is curious about what is going on with Tom Robinson’s wife. Throughout the book Scout is always wanting to be the one to know things, Because of the determination she has to find out things, her curiosity always ends up giving her the answer. Scout finds out that Bob and Mayella Ewell accused Tom of rape, and because of this answer Scout gets, she needs to know what rape means, and you guessed it, she asked what it meant due to her curiosity. So as the events in Maycomb go along, the curiosity follows, with Scout ending up with an epic amount of questions. The final trait that Harper Lee describes Scout is Violent. Scout likes to resolve occurrences with her violent nature.Thinking to herself, Scout says “My fist were clenched and ready to fly”(Lee 74). The little girl, Scout believes if she beats up others, then she won’t get bothered. Scout resolves most occurrences with violence, because she feels bad for people who are getting picked on. Just like the stereotypical boy is more aggressive than a girl, but since Scout has grown up with boys, she turns out to be more aggressive;she always wants to
In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout Finch is the protagonist. She lives in a town called Maycomb. Scout is a young girl who has a brother nicknamed Jem, and a father named Atticus. Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows Scout Finch as literate, curious, and violent. The first trait scout is portrayed to be is literate. She is above her peers expectations when it comes to her literacy. Scout says “She discovered I was iterate, and looked at me with faint distaste”(Lee 17). Miss Caroline, Scout’s teacher, is in distaste because she was yet to see a young literate child, and because of this, Scout gets unwanted tension between …show more content…
Scout explodes out and says “My curiosity burst:‘Why were you all takin’ up collection for Tom Robinson’s wife?’”(Lee123). Scout asks about this event, because she is curious about what is going on with Tom Robinson’s wife. Throughout the book Scout is always wanting to be the one to know things, Because of the determination she has to find out things, her curiosity always ends up giving her the answer. Scout finds out that Bob and Mayella Ewell accused Tom of rape, and because of this answer Scout gets, she needs to know what rape means, and you guessed it, she asked what it meant due to her curiosity. So as the events in Maycomb go along, the curiosity follows, with Scout ending up with an epic amount of questions. The final trait that Harper Lee describes Scout is Violent. Scout likes to resolve occurrences with her violent nature.Thinking to herself, Scout says “My fist were clenched and ready to fly”(Lee 74). The little girl, Scout believes if she beats up others, then she won’t get bothered. Scout resolves most occurrences with violence, because she feels bad for people who are getting picked on. Just like the stereotypical boy is more aggressive than a girl, but since Scout has grown up with boys, she turns out to be more aggressive;she always wants to