Scout Finch Character Development

To Kill A Mockingbird has significant characters with exceptional character development, practically Jean Louise Finch, better known as Scout. The base of her development is the maturity she gains and her new perspective on womanhood. From the first part, Scout is the little girl who does not want anything to do with being a lady, but she learns how to be a lady and has extraordinary growth in maturity. Another flourishing aspect of her character is her compelling new relationship with Boo Radley. Also with the transformation of her relationship with her brother, Jeremy Finch, and their friend Charles Baker Harris, more so known as Dill. Throughout To Kill A Mockingbird Scout has a tremendous escalation of maturity and her personality developing.

In the first few chapters Scout has just started school and refuses to wear dresses, is willing to stand up for herself and another student to a teacher, and tries her best to be included in Jem and Dill’s fun activities. She would rather wear pants than a dress for comfortability; also she does not want to be a lady yet. On her first day of school, she stands up for Walter Cunningham against Miss Caroline Fisher, explaining to her why he did not have money for his lunch. (page 22 to 23, Lee) During this time of her childhood she will speak her mind just like when she said, “ ‘But he’s gone and drowned his dinner in syrup,’ I protested. ‘He’s poured it all over-” (page 27, Lee) Another factor of her original personality is the fact she includes herself in Jem and Dill’s fun, whether it was dealing with Boo Radley or not. (pages 13 to 16, 41 to 43, and 52, Lee) In the beginning of To Kill A Mockingbird, Scout shows us she has not yet matured in her thinking and behavior because she does not want to know any better quite

Their relationship starts off with her being terrified from the stories her brother and the people of Maycomb have told. “I was trying to fight down the automatic terror rising in me” (page 52, Lee) Although she has a sparked curiosity of who he really is, she had felt guilt at times when it was their endeavor to get Boo out of the house. “I sometimes felt a twinge of remorse, when passing by the old place, at ever having taken part in what must have been sheer torment to Arthur Radley - what reasonable recluse wants children peeping through his shutters, delivering greetings on the end of fishing-pole, wandering in his collards at night?” (page 277, Lee) During the middle of the novel the children, mainly Jem, commence in a lost hope of getting Boo Radley out of the house. Although one thing young Scout may not realize until later is Boo had been watching out for her this whole time. In the climax of the story, the two Finch children are attacked by Bob Ewell, and Boo Radley ends up being the one to save them from Mr. Ewell. Another important factor of their relationship is the fact she finally gets to meet him, talk with him, and stand on his porch thinking of his perspective on the world in front of him. Throughout the entire novel Scout and Boo Radley’s relationship prospers in growth to prove he is not the mad man everyone thought of him to