DARREN, DENNIS AND LANCE

Scout Finch:

Personality:

Scout is an innocent young child. She is extremely hot headed, is easily provoked and easily resorts to using her fists. She is very innocent and doesn’t understand why everything around her happens.

1) Scout is feisty and aggressive when provoked.

2) Intelligent for her age

3) Feminist(ish)

4) Tomboy

Scouts actions:

1)      Scout does not hesitate to defend herself or her family when someone insults them. This often results in a fistfight.

2)      Scout can read and write well for her age. This pisses her 1^st grade teacher off because the little kids parents are not meant to teach them.

3)      Scout does not embrace the concept of being a ‘lady’ particularly well.

4)      Prefers overalls to dresses.

Important Insights

1)      Scout shows us the illogical and hypocritical prejudices which are in the town of Maycomb

Important Relationships:

1)      Atticus: Scout’s father. This is an important relationship because Atticus is a good roll model to his children and Scout wants to be just like him.

2)      Jem: Scout’s brother.

3)      Dill: Scout’s boyfriend.

4)      Arthur Radley (Boo): Scout

Scouts faults:

1)      Aggressive behaviour does not always solve the problem

2)      Scout knows too much and takes interest in adult matters.

3)      She is not very ladylike.

4)      She is a tomboy

Lisa and Sam

Scout Finch character study

Scouts personality:

Scout comes off to the reader as a strong-minded child, who is ignorant to the bigger picture of what is going on. She is a loyal and trust worthy friend, sister and daughter. She uses her innocence to her advantage and manages to stop a lynch mob. Scout is very intelligent; she learns a lot of lessons from her father, Atticus, which also helps her become the person she is. She can be seen as a feminist by the reader and inadvertently hits on many points, of which feminism is all about, in the way that she does not want to cook in the kitchen and fully ignores the people around her telling her to be a proper women and wear a dress, she instead decides to wear overalls, which is seen as “boys clothes”, in the eyes of the women townsfolk.

Important Relationships

Scout has a very strong relationship with her brother Jem and is willing to follow him absolutely anywhere, even when he has to read to Mrs Dubose and Scout thinks she may kill him in the process, (once again showing her childish nature). This relationship is very important to the story because without her following Jem everywhere she would not find out some of the very insightful information that she has to give the reader. Jem is also another teacher for Scout and as he is a few years older than Scout in her eyes he knows everything fun to do, what not to do and where to place the boundaries. They are brother and sister and the relationship shows this, but they can also be seen as very close friends by the reader. When Dill is introduced the relationship takes a bit of a beating because Jem has found a boy to be friends with and with this more things can be done than with a girl. When they are scheming to make Boo come out Scout is included in the beginning and as it proceeds and gets more “dangerous” Jem and dill exclude her. Right at the end of the scheme when Scout gets sick of exclusion, they decide to tell her what is going on and include her in the final try at getting Boo to come out. The relationship between Scout and Dill is not as important as her and Jem, but gives us an insight into her childish naivety, when she decides they are going to marry each other.

Scout and Atticus have a detached but fairly loving relationship. If Scout needs guidance on an issue or doesn’t understand something Atticus will explain it for her. Due to the way Atticus treats Scout, she is very intelligent and understands things that most people twice her age wouldn’t understand. The relationship is extremely important to the book because if it were different or didn’t exist, the insights Scout gives wouldn’t happen and she wouldn’t change and treat negro people with respect from Atticus’s word.

Scouts personality;Scout comes across to the reader as being stubborn and pig headed, but I think that she is an intelligent and level minded child. She is only a 6 year old but seems to understand a lot about life, she is very acceptant and trustworthy and takes everything that her father, Atticus, and brother, Jem, in good stead. As Scout used to call all black people“niggers” and talk about them like they are scum but Atticus talks to her and shows her that all people should be treated as equals no matter what colour, race, gender or lifestyle the have or are. Scout is very brave in the way that she sticks up for everyone, also being able to handle all of the stress and discrimination that she receives when Atticus takes on the Tom Robinson case. It’s great to see that Scout stays loyal to her father not showing any anger or remorse to him when his actions bring on a greatstruggle in her life, opening their whole family out to the viewing of Maycomb.

Scouts actions

Scout uses her innocence to her advantage, like when she breaks up the lynch mob that could have attacked her father instead of standing back,scout runs up to her father, and the mob and splits it up. Scout is verycourageous. You can see this in her actions when she takes on fights, thecourageous part is not the fighting and name calling, she shows her courage when she swallows her pride and walks away, making her ‘the bigger man’.

Scouts faults

One of scouts biggest faults is that she doesn’t listen, she is stubborn and narrow minded at times if anyone tries to tell her differently thaneither her brother or father have said, she wont listen.