In fact, the novel emphasizes how Scout’s personality is just like Harper Lee’s in her unruly aversion to school. It is mentioned in one source that “As a child, Harper Lee was…unruly…She fought on the playground. She talked back to the teachers. She was bored with school and resisted any sort of conformity” (Harper Lee 1926-2016). By fighting other children, Lee demonstrates how rough and unruly she is. Her boredom with school and conformity causes her to talk back to teachers, just like Scout does on her first day of school. In fact, Scout is just as rambunctious and bored with school as Lee is. Though Scout enters school on her first day of first grade excited and ready to learn, it isn’t long before her excitement turns into dread. She
