How Is Scout Honest

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One of the main characters in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is Scout. Scout is a really honest person, she can make a long list of complaints about other people but herself. Scout comes from a rich family, and that is why they can afford help from a colored woman called Cal. Scout and Cal don't go along with each other, but Scout respect Cal. In the book, the author writes few scenes when Scout has a conversion about or with other colored people. Atticus Scout dad respect and see exactly color people and white people. However, I looked in the book and I found two scenes when Scout doesn't really respect or does not see exactly white people and colored people. One of the scenes is when one of Scout’s classmate tell Scout that Atticus,

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