My Favourite Character

This Essay is about my favourite character in To Kill a galling Bird. She is unmatched of the biggest, most important characters she is considered the main character. She is very important for she helps narrate this story. She helps with the story by describing her thoughts and feelings that is one of the main reasons why I like her. She also helps to develop the plot, al-Qaedas, and helps to emphasize some of the symbolism. Her name is Jean-Louis, but we all know her as Scout. Scout is a daughter, a sister and a friend.She is a large tomboy and she likes to prove it to every one. She prefers to hang out boys rather than girls, and so she does, she spends most of her time with her chum salmon Jem, and in the summers, her cousin Dill. In the beginning of the book Scout is only a young succession of 9, throughout the novel she gets older just like the rest of the characters, and also matures along with her older buddy Jem. Although Scout isnt going through the same stages as J em she matures just as much.Jems spell into a teenager, while Scout is getting older, and is discovering how the world works. The era of this book is set back to more or less the years 1861 to 1865 this was when the civil war was happening, along with the discrimination of African Americans. Racism is a huge theme in To Kill a Mocking Bird. Scout doesnt really under stand that racialism isnt good, but its not her fault, because she has lived with it and doesnt know any different.In that time blacks were known as lesser human beings. The whites were known to be greater than any other race Scout didnt know that this was wrong, so she went with it. During the trail, one of the biggest parts of this novel, Scout discovers a little bit about racism. The effort is about how an African American is being accused for the rape of a Caucasian woman, during the trial a lot of discrimination happens to the defendant, this is when Scout discovers racism.