To Kill A Mockingbird Character Profile: Scout

Character Profile: Scout

• She is the narrator of the novel - we learn about her character through what she recounts about herself and what others say to her. We also learn what life looks like through a child's eyes and perspectives.

Main events in the novel:

• She starts school for the first time (ch2)
• She discovers gifts hidden in a tree near the Radley house (ch4)
• She finds her father outside the Maycombe jail and helps bring to an end a dangerous situation (ch15)
• She is present at the trial of Tom Robinson (chs 17-21)
• She attends a Maycombe Missionary Society meeting (ch24)
• She performs in the Halloween pageant and is attacked on her way home (ch 28-9)

Quotations:

• 'she discovered that i was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste' which means Scout's teacher does not approve of Scout's advanced reading skills, but Scout, a bright…