Character Analysis Of Scout Finch In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

Scout, also known as Jean Louise Finch, is the narrator throughout the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. She is one of the few the most interesting characters in this novel. Although Scout is very young throughout, she is very intelligent and understanding of what goes on around her, but she is a bit curious as well. Scout is more of a tomboy than a girly girl, and she would often get into fights with the boys around her school. These traits often occur during most of the novel, except some of the tomboy traits fade out when her aunt arrives. Leaving her wanting to live in her dad’s world and not her aunt’s. There are many ways that show that Scout is very intelligent during the book. An example would be “Atticus said that I had learned many things today, and Miss Caroline had learned several things herself”(Lee 30). She was always learning new things everyday, even if it was just something small. Another example of this is “I had an idea, however, that Aunt Alexandra’s appearance on the scene was not so much Atticus’s doing as hers”(Lee 128). These few examples show how intelligent she can be throughout the book.
She was always aware of what was going on in her cramped town of Maycomb County. A great example that shows this is “Jem was twelve. He was difficult to live with, inconsistent, moody”(Lee 115). She had observed that his moods and attitude was different. The second example is “This was not my father. My father never thought these thoughts. My father never spoke so”(Lee 134). Scout was very aware of the situations around her if they were changing, for her it wasn’t a bad