To Kill A Mockingbird: Scout In To Kill A Mockingbird Scout is a young girl and daughter of a respected lawyer named Atticus. With her older brother Jem, she enjoys participating in many activities which are mainly masculine ones. Without a mother to teach her the ways of a woman, she lives as a tomboy (much to the displeasure of her aunt). As Scout grows, she learns new things, feels new emotions, and begins to mature into bright young woman. Scout is learning that things are not always what they seem. She and Jem always believed that their father was not like any other fathers in sch