Scout Finch Maturity

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout is the daughter of Mr. Atticus Finch, who is a lawyer for the town of Maycomb, Alabama. Scout has an older brother, whose name is Jeremy, but they call him Jem, for short. Scout is always getting into things she probably shouldn’t, and is trying to be good while her father works on tough cases. When she was young, her mother died, so Scout does not have a superior female influence in her life to help her with certain things. That is where Aunt Alexandra, Atticus’ sister, comes in. She comes to help Atticus while he is working on his big case. Scout is quite the curious, bothersome, and tomboy 8-year-old there was back then. The semi-autobiographical novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee uses the characterization of Scout to show maturity and curiosity and reveals that everyone has to grow up eventually, whether they want to or not. Jean Louise “Scout” Finch is a very curious and outgoing little girl. She is always getting into things that, maybe, she shouldn’t. “’Let’s roll the tire,’ I suggested.” (page 49) In chapter 4 of the novel, Scout, Jem, and …show more content…
“My nagging got the better of Jem eventually.” (page 55). This shows that Scout is always nagging Jem, and eventually, he would get fairly annoyed with his little sister. “As Atticus once advised me to do, I tried to climb into Jem’s skin and walk around in it: if I had gone alone to the Radley place at two in the morning, my funeral would’ve been held the next afternoon. So I left Jem alone and tried to not bother him.” (page 77). Scout once tried to “walk in Jem’s shoes” to see what it would be like to be in his position. However, if she were to do what he did, she didn’t think she would live to see the next day, so she decided against it. Scout’s peskiness gets her into some trouble with her brother, as she bothers him so much that it could drive him completely insane