Scout Finch is a young girl in To Kill A Mockingbird who lives in Maycomb, a small town in the South during the Reconstruction Era. Harper Lee uses Scout’s ignorance and vagueness as a little girl and her developing understanding about events happening her life to demonstrate a unique instance of the age old and common moral versus society dilemma. Lee’s approach to portraying this is made in an effort to show the inevitable problem in an unbiased way. As Scout grows older she becomes aware of the internal conflict in following what is ethically and morally right against the pressures of society, especially from her father Atticus as he defends Tom Robinson, a Negro against the society. As she her understanding of her father’s internal conflict
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“I wouldn’t fight publicly for Atticus, but the family was private ground.”(Lee 119). Scout learns that before Atticus must deal with the town, he must deal with himself. Her growing respect and understanding of her father and his decisions enables her to be able to walk away from fights publicly. Considering her bellicose nature, this action shows her progressing maturity and perception. However, her grasp of this concept isn’t complete yet. She is still unable to walk away from an insult by a family member. This gap in her perception prevents her ability to take the insults from family. Her thinking is still flawed. She understands to a degree his dilemma but her defence of her father is still largely on respect for Atticus. She still isn’t truly aware of what Atticus is going through and why he wants her to walk away.
Ultimately, Scout comes to understand the decision Atticus made about his internal struggle and the reasons behind his decision. Eventually, she doesn’t just learns about Atticus’s decision and his reasons but understands them. By the end of the story, she knows Atticus on a deeper level as a result of her “stand[ing] in his shoes and walk around in them”(Harper 374). Her experience at the jail house
“I wouldn’t fight publicly for Atticus, but the family was private ground.”(Lee 119). Scout learns that before Atticus must deal with the town, he must deal with himself. Her growing respect and understanding of her father and his decisions enables her to be able to walk away from fights publicly. Considering her bellicose nature, this action shows her progressing maturity and perception. However, her grasp of this concept isn’t complete yet. She is still unable to walk away from an insult by a family member. This gap in her perception prevents her ability to take the insults from family. Her thinking is still flawed. She understands to a degree his dilemma but her defence of her father is still largely on respect for Atticus. She still isn’t truly aware of what Atticus is going through and why he wants her to walk away.
Ultimately, Scout comes to understand the decision Atticus made about his internal struggle and the reasons behind his decision. Eventually, she doesn’t just learns about Atticus’s decision and his reasons but understands them. By the end of the story, she knows Atticus on a deeper level as a result of her “stand[ing] in his shoes and walk around in them”(Harper 374). Her experience at the jail house