Scout (Zoe W, Emily, Kaylee)

[MsElliott]

Scout (Zoe W, Emily, Kaylee)

[zoewatson]

Throughout TKAM, How does Scout grow and transforms a person and learn valuable life lessons?

> Scout is innocent and does not yet understand the prejudice and injustice present in the "adult world".
- When Miss Caroline offers Walter Cunningham money, Scout unintentionally insults him by saying, "You're shamin' him, Miss Caroline. Walter hasn't got a quarter at home to bring you and you can't use any stovewood."
- Scout participates in the "Boo Radley" game - a game "woven from bits and scraps of gossip and neighborhood legend"
- Students at school call Atticus a "nigger-lover". This prompts Scout to ask Atticus, ""If you shouldn’t be defendin‘ him, then why are you doin’ it?"

>During the text, Scout is expected to grow up to be a lady
- She is pestered by her aunt to start wearing 'proper' clothes
"Aunty was fanatical on the subject of my attire. I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches."

- Gender roles, she's expected to behave like a 'lady'
Aunt Alexandra's vision of my deportment involved playing with small stoves, tea sets, and wearing the Add-A-Pearl necklace she gave me when I was born; furthermore, I should be a ray of sunshine in my father's lonely life.

- Scout starts off thinking that being a girl was a bad thing, since Jem always used the word girl as an insult, but she eventually learns to respect girls.
"I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that's why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with."
"[Calpurnia] seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl."


>Lessons that Scout learns throughout the novel
- Atticus teaches Scout that you cannot judge a person without understanding where they are coming from.
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view […] until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."

- Throughout the novel Scout learns who is truly courages and what courage really is
“Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.”
- Scout finally sees Boo, for who he really is and that gossip and rumours aren't necessarily the truth.
Atticus and Scout are talking about people beneath the rumours: Scout says,
"Atticus...He was real nice" Atticus then replies with,"Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them."