Meeting Scout (To Kill a Mockingbird)

The book that I'm currently exploring for my 40 book challenge is, To Kill a Mockingbird.  As I venture further into this novel, I start to realize the characterization used to build up the characters and their personalities, and I feel like through the book, I'm starting to get to know the characters better.  The one character whose personality really stuck out at me as really unique was the main character, Scout.  The story is told in a 1st Person POV (Point of View) from her.

In the first few chapters, Scout is introduced as a very young, inquisitive, and smart girl who has some trouble sifting through her thoughts and putting them into words for others to interpret or understand.  She sometimes takes what others are telling her the wrong way and interprets it to mean something somewhat different.  For example, a piece of the book says, "Miss Caroline caught me writing and told me to tell my father to stop teaching me.  'Besides' she said, 'We don't write in the first grade, we print.  You won't learn to write until you're in the third grade."  (Scout thinking) "Calpurnia was to blame for this."  So Scout interprets Miss Caroline's comment to mean that it was all their cook's fault, Calpurnia, for teaching her to write.  Later in the book, Scout comes home and has a big argument with Calpurnia about how it was all her fault that Scout got in trouble.

So the reason I'd really like to meet Scout, not just for a day or two, but to really get to know her, would be to attempt to relate to her thoughts and try to understand her interesting and troubled way of thinking and communicating.  I think lots of kids have gone through times where they have trouble talking about their thoughts simply because they're having trouble understanding them as well.  Another reason would be to just relate to her and her older brother Jem's everyday lifestyle and see how different it would be to the one I share with my siblings.  The games they played, and the pointless arguments, and dares/challenges, sounded a lot like some of the things my friends, brothers, and sisters do.  Maybe when I was a little younger, like in the middle of elementary school, but their activities still sounded quite familiar.

Although, I'm fairly sure this setting or beginning that the author has introduced won't continue to be the main focus or conflict of the book, I enjoyed relating and comprehending it.  But, I'm sure I'll continue to reflect and talk about the events still to come within the story.