Scout's Broken

The story begins where it ends. As the novel shows the exponential growth of Scout’s character from when she was five to nine years old, it is a bildungsroman. The young Scout serves us as a guide who takes us through the black-and-white rules of childhood while the adult Scout acts as a teacher who educates us on different shades of justice and morals. From the introduction it is obvious that Scout is re-telling her story from a point later on in her life: ‘When enough years had gone but to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events that lead to this accident.’ The ‘accident’ of the broken one serves as a device to provide background information for the Finch Family.