How Does Atticus Finch Change

cout Finch undergoes changes in the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, that allows her to walk freely with Boo Radley. These changes will be explained further with reference to the novel, as a whole.

In the beginning of the novel, we are aware that Scout and Jem Finch as well as Charles Baker Harris and majority of Maycomb’s youth, have certain opinions about the “malevolent phantom” (1) also know as Boo Radley. Boo Radley is caricatured to be a man with “yellow teeth” (1) and “breath so bad, the azalea’s froze” when he breathed on them. Boo Radley was seen as a recluse and the “foot-washer’s” (1) son, who “dined on raw squirrels” (1) and “peeped” in people’s windows. Scout Finch, along with many others, openly believe these rumours without even properly knowing the facts.
As time progresses, Scout Finch begins to understand what it must have been like for Boo Radley living in this town as it says that Boo wanted to stay inside his home, rather than being out with everyone else. Scout Finch understands why Boo has made that choice, after she witnesses the unfairness during the Tom Robinson trial. Scout Finch then stops picking on Boo Radley which indicates that she is understanding and realising what it is like for certain people and their circumstances. Scout Finch also learns a lot from her Aunt Alexandra, which contributes to Scout Finch’s character. Scout Finch learns how to act more lady-like, but not by force, by choice. Her actions and her thinking have become more appropriate to the ways of the “womenfolk” (1) in