ANALYSIS OF SCOUT

Scout is childish and immature. In the first chapter, her reaction that the event that lead to the loss of Jem’s arm was the expulsion of the Indians from the area. “I said that if he wanted to take a broad view of thing, it really began with Andrew Jackson. If General Jackson hadn’t run the Creeks up the creek, Simon Finch would never have paddled up the Alabama, and where would we be if he hadn’t?”(Pg 9)

Later in Chapter three, she also attempts to beat up Walter in revenge for making her start off on the wrong foot at school, which is a very childish way to solve methods. “Catching Walter Cunningham in the schoolyard gave me some pleasure, but when I was rubbing his nose in the dirt Jem came by and told me to stop.” (Pg 28) Her childish retorts with Calpurnia and her asking Atticus to dismiss Calpurnia also shows her immatureness. “I told Calpurnia to just wait, I’d fix her: one of these days when she wasn’t looking I’d go off and drown myself in Barker’s...