Abstract

This paper is to explore the personalities of Scout, who is the narrator and the hero in To Kill a Mockingbird. As a six-year old girl, Scout is created with lots of priceless personalities. She is pure and naïve, brave and naughty, integrity and independent. Through Scout’s eyes, Harper Lee presents a hope to cleanse the dirt of the society, to encourage the black in the low state, to arouse the people’s sense of justice, and to set up woman’s Self-confidence and self-reliance. Scout is not to judge anything just because the people involved are black or white, but because it is right or wrong. So she presents the author’s hope to create a real equal world, a world with equal rights to the white as well as to the black.

Key Words: Personalities  Pure  Brave  Integrity  Independent

摘   要

这篇论文主要探究主人公斯科特的性格特征并分析作者为何会以一个小女孩为视觉来呈现这个世界。斯科特是一个年仅只有6岁的小女孩儿，她眼中呈现了不同于成人视角的真实世界。作者将斯科特描写成一个天真无邪，淘气勇敢，正直，独立的小女孩儿，并用她的这些性格特征去荡涤这个世界的污垢，鼓舞处在被压迫阶级的黑人，唤起人们心中的正义，树立起女性同胞的自信与自强。在她眼里只有对与错，没有黑人与白人之分，她以最直接的方式展现当时的社会现状，而作者也通过斯科特表达了希望黑白人真正平等的美好愿望。

关键词： 性格特征  天真无邪 勇敢 正直 独立 

1 Introduction
In the early years after the civil war, the works written by the southern writers of USA often deviate from reality and depict the southern plantation as black people and white man’s paradise. In the 20th century, the writers began to examine the southern society closely with calm sight, and presented the true social current situation with the sharp brush stroke. By the 1930s southern literature has come to the highest level, and 3 literature masters appeared, William Faulkner, Robert Penn warren, and Thomas Wolff. Their works are totally planted in the southern life and revealed and castigated the repulsive phenomenon of the southern society mercilessly. After this, southern literature comes to a special time, and Harper Lee was such a writer who was famous in that period. In 1960, she published her first and the only novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. In April 1961, Lee was awarded the Alabama Library Association Award. Actually she was the first woman to get the Pulitzer Prize for fiction since 1942.