Scout Finch Personality

Many novels have a goal of influencing readers to become better people overall, though none manage it quite as well as Harper Lee’s world famous novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The remarkable effects the novel had on its many readers is accomplished through its several characters, though none have the same influence as the book's main character. The main character in this novel is Jean Louise Finch, or Scout. This character, in particular, has the greatest effect on the books reader, with many looking up to her as a role model. It is fairly easy to see why she is also a popular character, as she displays many traits that either make her relatable to the reader. Scout Finch is an important and memorable character due to her unprejudiced nature, her impressionable point of view, and her high level of maturity.
Scout Finch is shown to be incredibly unprejudiced considering her age and location. Her lack of biases of any type is shown many times in the novel due to biases being a heavy theme in the book. One of the …show more content…
While she is shown to be immature in some points, she is mainly shown to have a higher level of maturity than most other people around her. One of the first times this is shown is when she listens to her father’s lessons and takes them to heart. This shows her maturity due to the fact that most people around her are shown to be very closed minded and prejudiced, which Scout’s maturity about her lessons teaches her not to be. Similarly, she is shown often sympathizing with other people and looking at things from another point of view. Finally, Scout Finch is shown to not have care about heredity as much as the other people around her when she thinks about her Aunt’s obsession with it and thinks to herself “I never understood her preoccupation with heredity” (173). All of these examples show that Scout has a level of maturity which many people around fail to