Wednesday, February 12, 2014

What is Scout's personality?

The word that my students always use for Scout is
"Tomboy". She plays outside, dresses like a boy, and beats up other
boys.


Additionally, she is intelligent, insightful, and
imaginative. She learned to read at a young age, innocently questions extremely
difficult societal questions, and she plays creative games, such as the Radley
reenactments, with Dill and Jem.


She lacks a “proper”
feminine influence, in her life and really has no interest in learning how to act like a
lady. Aunt Alexendra attempts to make Scout act like a lady by forcing her to attend
Maycomb’s ladies missionary circle and dressing her up in a dress. Scout detests
Alexandra’s attempts at making her a lady.

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