To Kill A Mockingbird Scout's Personal Identity Analysis

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Someone’s personal identity by can change a great deal over the course of a life. In the case of Harper Lee’s Scout Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout’s personal identity does exactly that, Scouts personal identity changes many times during this book in the beginning she was very gullible and believed anyone no matter what they said. In the middle of the book scout started to finally ask more questions from the source and she started to get her answers from the right people. Near the end of the book scout starts to become very responsible because she us held with a huge task to hold a secret that could determine whether or not Boo Radley is going to jail. Scout goes through a series of events trying to find who she is and she is put through so much from having to be filled with lies to having to keep a secret that depends on whether or not Boo Radley is killed.

In the beginning of To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout is best described as being gullible.
In chapter 1, Scout is gullible in this chapter because she is buying whatever jem is saying. Jem doesn't know whether that facts are true or not he heard them from other people but scout believes every word he is saying. On page 16, it says, “Jem gave a reasonable description of Boo: Boo was about six­ and­ a­
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In the middle of the book scout started to finally ask more questions from the source and she started to get her answers from the right people. Near the end of the book scout starts to become very responsible because she is held with a huge task to hold a secret that depends whether or not Boo Radley dies. Scout changes many times on the course of this book mostly for the better. She finds who she is and she opens her eyes to reality and figures legends are lies and she needs to stop listening to them. In the end scout ended up growing

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