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Scout by Mind Map: Scout

1. Looks Like

1.1. Wears boyish clothes

1.1.1. "You're mighty dressed up, Miss Jean Louise, she said. Where are your britches today? Under my dress."

1.1.1.1. Scout dresses more like a boy rather than a girl and the whole town knows this.

1.2. Dirty a lot from playing outside

1.2.1. "When I appeared in the doorway, Aunty would look as if she regretted her request; I was usually mud-splashed or covered with sand."

1.2.1.1. Aunt Alexandra want Scout to become more like a woman however Scout doesn't want this and continues acting as a tom boy.

2. How others see her

2.1. Scout acts a lot as a tomboy and thats how her family sees her although Aunt Alexandra wants her to be more like a girl and tries to change her by coming over to stay at the Finch household to be a role model for her. - PAGE 143 “When I appeared in the doorway, Aunty would look as if she regretted her request; I was usually mud-splayed or covered with sand” - Scout Finch

2.2. Calpurnia and Jem see Scout very much like a tomboy and eventually both of them end up telling her she needs to be more like a girl, the only person to let Scout to act like herself and doesn’t tell her what to do is Atticus. - PAGE 125 “It’s time you started bein’ a girl and acting right!” - Jem Finch

2.3. People see Scout as being too young for certain things and thinks she doesn’t understand a lot, such as the Tom Robinson's trial, everybody does;t want to include Scout and tell her not to go to the trial because they think she is too young but in actually fact she understands completely and come times sees things about the court case that Jem doesn’t. - PAGE 188 “ You better take Miss Jean Louise home” - Reverend Skyes, - PAGE 188 “ I think it’s okay Reverebd, she does;t understand it” - Jem Finch

3. Acts Like

3.1. Scout regularly is known to act like a tomboy because she always plays outside with Jem, wrestles with him and gets into fights constantly at home and at school and not acting like a regular girl who wears dresses and doesn’t get involved with fights.

3.2. Scout acts as though she wants to help, she does this because she wants to defend the people she cares about such as fighting her cousin and people at school for calling Atticus a ‘nigger lover’. EXAMPLES - FIGHTING FRANCIS AND WALTER CUNNINGHAM

3.3. Scout doesn’t think before she acts, most of the time Scout gets involved with fights even though she has been specifically told not to fight by her father and her brother. Scout doesn’t understand most of the time why her family says this to her and tries to restrain herself but always ends up fighting with others and disobeying orders. - EXAMPLE - FIGHTING WALTER AND ANOTHER BOY AT SCHOOL

4. Beliefs and Values

4.1. Goodness in everyone

4.2. Little evil in the world

4.2.1. "Entailements are bad, I was advising him, when I slowly awoke to the fact that I was addressing the entire aggregation. The men were all looking at me, some had their moths half-open."

4.2.1.1. In a serious, dangerous, situation at the Jail, Scout is completely unaware of what's happening and starts having a conversation with the men."

4.3. Everyones the same (equality)

4.3.1. "Naw, Jem , I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks" - pg 247

4.4. Learning (from Atticus)

4.4.1. "But if I keep on goin' to school, we can't ever read any more..."

5. Motivated By

5.1. Family: “My fists were clenched and I was ready to let fly."- spoken by Scout Finch (pg. 81) In this quote Scout is about to punch Cecil Jacobs because he was calling Atticus a nigger love, and Scout took offense to it. Scout is very defensive about her father and the rest of the family and it motivates her throughout the novel to protect those she loves

5.2. Being treated with respect: ‘“It’s about time you started bein’ a girl and start acting right” I burst into tears and fled to Calpernia’-Spoken by Scout (pg. 125) Scout is highly offended by Jem telling her to act more like a girl. Scout hates people thinking they know what’s best for her. It is a motivation of her’s to prove that she is worth of having her own ideas.

6. Textual Issues or concerns

6.1. Feminism: "It’s about time you started bein’ a girl and start acting right”-Spoken by Jem Finch (pg. 125) Scout is a tom-boy, she faces many problems in the novel with her feminist side. Aunt Alexander is a main driver of the torment on Scout. Scout doesn’t like dressing in dresses and pretty much everything else women were expected to do in that time.