What Is Maudie's Point Of View In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Jean Louise Finch (Scout) is the narrator of his book at the beginning she is six years old and by the end she is almost ten years old. Though the expansion of her world, Scout demonstrates her growth in understandment, patience and
Scout at the beginning being not vary understanding other's actions and sometimes judging them wrong to a very understanding girl throughout the story, this is shown when scout says "As I was the last to leave, I saw her sink into her chair and bury her face in her arms. Had her conduct been more friendly towards me, I would have felt sorry for her. (pg. 29)". This shows that scout can't see things by Miss. Caroline's point of view because she does not try to know her reasons or try to ask her why she was so strict. With time, she started to understand others and their actions better, examples are when miss. Maudie's house burned or when she learned that Atticus could shoot.
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At the beginning of the story Scout did not understand why Boo Radley never left her house not considering why did he not leave that house but at the end of the book she knows a little more about him. After meeting him she understood that he had his own reasons, scout narrates “neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and or lives… Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them (pg. 373-374)”. Scout can show understandment about others and see things in others perspective, this ability shows a lot of prescience in her

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