![]() The major development of her character is in learning that the world is not void of evil and that life can sometimes be unfair to good people. Walter Cunningham, with her polite manners, to disperse the crowd attempting to lynch Tom Robinson at the jail. ![]() ![]() After experiencing the prim manners and forced politeness among the conventional ladies of Maycomb, Scout decides that she would not like to be a lady.Īlthough stubborn, Scout is a good kid, she loves her father Atticus, and her brother Jem, she does her best to live by everything Atticus teaches her and holds no malice or prejudice against people on the basis of race or class. Scout later begins to see the expectations around being a lady with the coming of her aunt Alexandria. But because Calpurnia is a black woman and only a domestic servant to the Finch family, her feminine influence on the children is considered inappropriate. In actuality, she has a feminine influence from their domestic worker, Calpurnia. The conventional women of Maycomb County consider her unusual in her dressing and manners and believe this is because she has no feminine influence in her life. She is direct and speaks her mind without mincing words, likes to have her way, and puts up a fight when she does not. She dresses like a boy, plays with boys, and even gets into fights with boys. ![]() She is stubborn, hot-headed, and somewhat of a tomboy. Scout’s first grade teacher, Miss Caroline takes offence to her advanced literacy level. She is very intelligent and could read way before she started school and understood vocabulary that her peers could not even imagine existed, but despite being good at reading, she does not like arithmetic. The events in To Kill a Mockingbird begin when she was six years old down to when she was almost nine years old. ![]()
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