Character Analysis Of Scout Finch In Harper Lee's 'To Kill A Mockingbird'

From blurting words out loud to not seeing the evilness of Maycomb. A tomboy, someone who spoke her mind and never thought twice about what she was going to say. Who is this you might be asking yourself. This person I am describing is Scout Finch. Scout was unlike the other girls. She would much rather hang around with the guys and talk like them. She was even unsure about the true evilness of her own town Maycomb and she truly defined the word innocence.

Scout was a girl who always did what she wanted to do no matter what others thought. If everyone was doing something it would be the natural instinct to follow suit and do as the others in the group did. But this wasn’t the case for Scout. She made decisions on her own and that’s what made …show more content…
For example when she asked Calpurnia about what rape was, who turned it over to Atticus to put it into a better perspective. Scout also has many problems at school because she is more educated than many of the other kids in her grade. This gets her to be tormented by Miss Caroline to downgrade herself. Also at school Scout is bullied by many kids who call Atticus a “nigger lover”. Scout has to restrain herself from retaliating and walk away. Scout undergoes multiple internal and external complications throughout To Kill a …show more content…
She only sees the good in people but quickly finds out that there is a whole lot of evil in her own town. A young girl that the reader saw grow into a young adult by each flip of the page. Someone who had no filter and said exactly what was on her mind no matter who was listening. Scout was someone who was oblivious to what was going on around her until it hit her how big of a deal it really was. Scout had to deal with being bullied by her fellow classmates for something she couldn’t control but she still stood up for what she believed in. Which is why Scout Finch was such a great character to learn about and someone who defined