![]() ![]() While most girls in Scout’s position would be wearing dresses and learning manners, Scout, thanks to Atticus’s hands-off parenting style, wears overalls and learns to climb trees with Jem and Dill. He has nurtured her mind, conscience, and individuality without bogging her down in fussy social hypocrisies and notions of propriety. One quickly realizes when reading To Kill a Mockingbird that Scout is who she is because of the way Atticus has raised her. In terms of her social identity, she is unusual for being a tomboy in the prim and proper Southern world of Maycomb. She is unusually intelligent (she learns to read before beginning school), unusually confident (she fights boys without fear), unusually thoughtful (she worries about the essential goodness and evil of mankind), and unusually good (she always acts with the best intentions). Scout is a very unusual little girl, both in her own qualities and in her social position. ![]() Scout eventually develops a more grown-up perspective that enables her to appreciate human goodness without ignoring human evil. As the novel progresses, this faith is tested by the hatred and prejudice that emerge during Tom Robinson’s trial. Scout has a combative streak and a basic faith in the goodness of the people in her community. She is intelligent and, by the standards of her time and place, a tomboy. Scout lives with her father, Atticus, her brother, Jem, and their black cook, Calpurnia, in Maycomb. Jean Louise “Scout” Finch - The narrator and protagonist of the story. ![]()
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