As any child her age, the start of the novel shows Scout as young and innocent. Scout has her own view on what happens in the world. Scout neither knows nor understands the way of life for the people of Maycomb. She believes that the world should make sense to her own ways. She is especially not compliant with the fact that girls are to wear dresses for everyday activities. On her first day of school, Scout encounters Walter Reed, the son of a farming family that was on the brink of poverty and often was not used to the way of normal dining. Scout gets confused as shown in the text, “Walter poured syrup on his vegetables and meat with a generous hand. He would have probably poured it into his milk glass had I not asked what the sam hill he
