Scout's Attitudes In To Kill A Mockingbird

In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, Scout receives valuable and helpful advice from her father. Scout’s behaviour shows that she doesn’t truly understand Atticus’s advice. As she wanders life mistrusting others, judging them and refusing to acknowledge their emotions and point of view.
Scout judges others without realizing it until someone tells her and she gets in trouble. An example is when she judges the way Walter ate. “But he’s gone and drowned his dinner in syrup,” I protested. “He’s poured it all over—.” (Lee 24) she judges the way Walter ate. She should have kept her thoughts to herself“He ain’t company, Cal, he’s just a Cunningham—. Hush your mouth! Don’t matter who they’re, anybody sets foot in this house’s yo’ company, and don’t you let me catch you remarkin’ on their ways like you was so high and mighty.”(Lee 25). Scout should have realized it would embarrass Walter to draw attention to his behavior and also hurt his feelings by saying he wasn’t good enough to be her company.
“Burris Ewell, remember? He just goes to school the first day. The truant lady reckons she’s carried out the law when she gets his name on the roll-”.(Lee 30). She shouldn’t have compared herself to Burris Ewell because the Ewells have a much more difficult and different life from her own. “Atticus said the Ewells had been the disgrace of Maycomb for three generations. None of them had done an honest day’s work in his recollection. They were people, but they lived like animals.” (Lee 31). Atticus is telling Scout that she shouldn’t not go to school and think just because someone else doesn’t show up to school doesn’t mean she should do that and think it's right. She should take this opportunity that others don’t