Scout Finch is immature
because:
1. SHE IS EASILY PERSUADED TO FIGHT. We see this
in the beginning as she wants to fight Walter Cunningham, and later she fights with her
cousin Francis for calling her father a "nigger-lover".
2.
SHE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND THE INNUENDO OF ADULTS. When adults talk about something, she
doesn't catch their meanings or jokes. Atticus gives Scout a direct dictionary
definition of rape because he's thinking that she isn't going to ask anymore questions
with a phrase like "carnal knowledge". Furthermore, when Scout is in the middle of all
the men who are ready to fight Atticus out in front of the jail, she doesn't even seem
to know what's going on, she just remains friendly as
ever.
3. SHE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND WHY RACE IS AN ISSUE. She
just accepts that it is in her father's cases. However, when it comes to Mrs. Gates
talking about persecuting the Jews, she does recognize that what the whites do to the
blacks feels an awful lot like that. She still struggles with why that happens
though.
Being a coming of age novel, the book demonstrates
great growth in Scout during the whole book so she has to be immature at some points for
the book to reveal these learning moments.
No comments:
Post a Comment