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To Kill a Mockingbird Goal?

In the story, does scout have a goal?
i have finished reading the book
and im doing a reading assignment
and i really want to get ideas from everybody.
so, can anyone help?
i will give ten points to the first person whose answer
sounds reasonable!!
so the question is:
does scout have a goal in the story?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Scout's goal in telling the story, that's what you mean? If it's this, her goal is to show that we must not be afraid of who's different or we think is different from us. It's the case of Boo, their neighbor, considered like a dangerous man, a killer or whatever and who proves to be a gentle, sweet person to whom Scout and her brother own their lives in the end. But it's also the case of the black man who's on trial and defended by Atticus: he's black, he's "different" in that time's society, he has to be guilty.

It's a wonderful story, I read the book twice and saw the movie an uncountable number of times.

Maryn Bittner, Scout is NOT a child when she tells the story and if she does it, there's a reason. She clearly says, at the end, that what happened taught them "not to be afraid of the darkness beyond the edge", not to be afraid of what we don't know. It's not that difficult and it's very clear.