Jean Louise "Scout" Finch

Scout is an unusually smart girl, she can read and write before she goes to school and the way in which Harper Lee writes her character, from her older and younger points of view, allows the reader to get to know her thoughts. She often worries about things above her age, like the good and evil in people, she is also not like most girls her age. She ignores the usual social niceties of being a growing girl in Maycomb, she wears her brothers old clothes and gets into fist fights with boys. She and her brother get along really well and she often looks up to Jem for guidance.

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