Scout Finch Lessons

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Scout Finch also known as Jean Louise Finch is a widely opened minded character, Scout also likes to make things go her way but they can’t. Things never go the way you want them to and in this book it clearly has shown Scout how to learn some lessons. Now in some lessons it takes her a while to understand the concept but who could blame her, when you're young things never make sense in the real world. That is also why we have guidance to help us out with the issues that we still need to solve. Towards the end of the novel Boo Radley also known as Arthur Radley, shows Scout that the town's gossip can also be very false at times. Boo Radley was a symbol character in this book. Scout was always curious about Boo but also frighten, with

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