#SCOUT FINCH TRIAL#

When Scout sees the controlled way Aunt Alexandra and Miss Maudie respond to the news of Tom Robinson’s death, she is forced to reassess this view and has a new admiration for the way women have to behave in certain situations.

However, until the missionary tea Scout has also felt that being a woman means being seen as weak and only interested in things that bore her, such as clothes and taking tea. Scout wears her trousers beneath her dress so that she still feels more like herself. “You’re mightily dressed up, Miss Jean Louise,” she said. At Aunt Alexandra’s missionary tea Scout is forced to wear a dress but feels uncomfortable and ill at ease. She enjoys playing outdoors with Jem and Dill and wears dungarees far more than she wears dresses. Scout has a close relationship with both her father and her brother and she is portrayed as intelligent and as a loving and loyal member of the family. This reveals that Scout has become mature, with an ability to discuss events with Jem rather than argue about them. When describing Bob Ewell’s attack on Jem for example, she comments, When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident.

The controlled voice of the older Scout when she is narrating, tells the reader that this is something she managed to achieve. She also tries to control her temper and become less hot headed.

#SCOUT FINCH TRIAL#

At the start of the novel Scout is obviously less mature than her older brother Jem because she is several years younger than him and there are things that happen in the trial of Tom Robinson that she does not at first fully understand.Īs the novel progresses, Scout begins to develop more of an understanding of these issues and of the lessons Atticus is trying to teach her. However, Scout narrates the novel when she is an adult who is looking back on her childhood and narrating the events that happened through the eyes of the child she was.

The novel begins when she is almost six years old and ends when she is nine. Jean Louise Finch, or Scout as she is always known, is the daughter of Atticus Finch.

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