Scout struggles with her own prejudiced feelings, as when she can’t see the hypocrisy of hating dresses but thinking that boys shouldn’t learn to cook, or when she suggests that Tom Robinson is just a black person, and that it’s therefore normal and expected for people to treat him poorly. When Atticus, a lawyer, agrees to take on the defense of a black man, Tom Robinson, in a rape case, Scout demonstrates her hotheadedness by defending Atticus’s honor against their majority-white community’s vitriol-though she tries her best to follow through with Atticus’s request that she take the moral high ground and not fight back. Though Scout is just as terrified as Jem and Dill are of their neighbor Boo Radley, she’d rather be cautious about approaching Radley Place and ideally would give it a wide berth, but she often gets roped into Dill and Jem’s plans to somehow force Boo out of the house. She prefers summertime, when she can run around the neighborhood with Jem and their friend Dill, who proposes to Scout at the beginning of their second summer together.
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She finds Atticus in particular far more knowledgeable than her teachers at school, as her teachers take offense to the fact that Scout already knows how to read and write in cursive on the first day of first grade and force her to engage in mindless exercises. Scout adores and admires both Atticus and Jem, her older brother, who in her mind know everything there is to know. Many neighbors and family members take offense to her love of overalls, though her father, Atticus, defends her right to wear what she wants and doesn’t force her to act like a lady.
Over the course of the novel’s three years, Scout grows from six to nine years old.
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