ENG 3UI Ms. Dekker Wednesday, November 19, 2008 Diverse Life Styles Different Types of People in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird Scout is the young naive narrator in the novel. In her point of view she only sees “one kind of folks. Folks.” (266). By saying this it expresses her theory. She thinks everybody is the same. Scout does not judge people scout follows the advice Atticus, her father gives her. The advice Atticus gives Scout is not to judge people you don’t know. By the end of the novel Scout thought to herself that, “Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Scout slowly comes to the understanding that everybody lives different lifestyles whether it is being poor, or being rich. When Scout meets Boo Radely after he saved Scout and Jem, Scout tells Atticus that “he was real nice” (281). Atticus responds to this by saying “Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them” (281). This made scout realise that everyone is different, and cannot be judged without being met. This also backed her previous quote up. Najjar, 2 Najjar, 3 The neighbourhood is filled with lots of interesting characters. The neighbourhood contains people like the Finch’s, Miss Maudie, Miss Stephanie, Miss Dubose, and the Radley’s. Although most of the people in the neighbourhood are “classified” the same, they all have different personalities. Mrs. Stephanie was the neighbourhood gossip. She gives Jem and Scout false information about Arthur “Boo” Radley. Miss Stephanie tells Jem, “As Mr. Radley passed by, Boo drove the scissors in to his parent’s leg, pulled them out, wiped them on his pants, and resumed his activities”(11). This gives everybody the wrong idea on someone else, especially the children. Jem and Scout were scared from the Radley’s because they thought Boo was Najjar, 4 Najjar, 5 Work Cited Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. New York: Warner Books,...