Scout is a chatachater from the best selling book To Kill a Mockingbird, and I am going to show you the perspective of losing innocence through a child, scout. In the beginning of the novel …show more content…
Scout doesn’t like the idea of her wearing a dress if she can’t do what she likes in it. It feels as if her being a girl wearing a dress is what takes away her freedom of doing what she loves and instead doing what others think she should be doing. From that she witnesses an understanding of society and loses a bit of innocence since she knows one day she will have to be a women and do what society depicts as a women is. At some point she won't get to do what she would like, but will have to do what is needed. She is going to have to be a mother to her children when she didn’t grow up with one for that long. Losing a mother at a very young age is a hard thing for a child. Losing someone too early and knowing you wont they won’t be there, physically, to see you grow up. That was the first thing that not only her, but her brother too, jem, experience something that is very difficult to go through. During the Tom Robinson case scout experiences that the world isn’t such a happy colorful place as it seems. During the time of the case and all the racism that the kids were really open to seeing, scout