The connection that Scout makes between Hitler's prejudice against the Jews and the prejudice that flows through the white people of her town towards the black denizens shows us a little maturity in her. The fact that she makes this connection at all is surprising for a nine-year-old. Most of the adults in her town have not even seen what they have been doing to others. If we could have learned a little earlier that a man of another race is still a man, the world's history may have been a little less bloody.
For the Halloween pageant, Mrs. Merriweather assigns Scout the part of "Pork." I think being the ham fits Scout's personality best. However difficult that suit may have been to get in and out of, it ended up being very useful. Chicken wire is tough stuff.
Scout misses her cue on stage because she fell asleep listening to Mrs. Merriweather's drone. I can find almost too much relation to this. Many of my classmates have had the ill fortune of falling asleep during class. But she made up for it by showing up at the end. "Better late than never."
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