What Is Scout's Innocence In To Kill A Mockingbird

Think back to when you were little kid around 7 or so and you had no worries about life or anything. All you would think about is candy and toys and nothing about the world of adults. No worries of the weather or what the grown ups would talk about. Scout’s childhood innocence takes a turn from her care free days to the real world of racism and bad people. In To Kill a Mockingbird Scout witnesses the trial of Tom Robinson and how racism is taught to her unknowingly from it. There were many characters for Harper Lee to choose from but she chose Scout and this way we are able to understand racism back then. Harper Lee chose Scout to be the narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird because her innocence and her experiences this while growing up through

In the story Atticus states “As you grow older, you 'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don 't you forget it- whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash”. Since Scout is hearing this from such a young age it gives the reader a better understanding of how Scouts life is being affected since she is so young. If in this case it was in Atticus’s shoes the reader wouldn 't learn as much as from Scout 's eyes because Atticus is very smart and doesn 't need to learn these type of things again, therefore we the reader wouldn 't learn anything moral. Another advantage that Harper Lee had when writing To Kill a Mockingbird is that when Scout says “I think there 's one kind of folks. Folks”, she is able to portray more of her child like innocence, whereas if this was Atticus saying it, it wouldn 't really make sense considering he 's a grown man who knew a lot of and about the world. The only disadvantage of this particular situation is that Scout hasn 't had a lot of experience with the real world therefore she doesn 't know of the experiences maybe her dad was having. If it was however in Atticus’s eyes maybe said in a better way it would sound more mature than just folks are folks even though that may not be true. With Scouts youth there is a Naive personality behind it and the belief that everyone is equal and may not make sense to