My First Day vs. Scouts First Day

Scout's first day of elementary school is actually a lot similar to my first day of middle school. Her brother, Jem, made it very clear to her before school that he was in fifth grade and she was in first grade, which is very similar to my brother and I. My brother is a year older than me and for him I am his "Scout", the annoying younger sister. A difference, though, was when Scout got in a fight with Walter Cunningham.  Jem came and broke up the quarrel, helping Scout do something that she would regret. But with my brother and me, he probably would stay out of the fight and talk to me later about it at home.

Another difference between Scout’s first day of elementary school and my first day of middle school was that she is more outgoing and talkative than I. I am definitely shyer than Scout. She is very headstrong and was able to talk to Miss Caroline very confidently even when Miss Caroline thought she was lying. I don’t think I would ever be in that situation because I remember in middle school I barely talked or raised my hand until a week or so into the school year.

Surprisingly, for Scout being tomboy in the first grade, growing up in a small southern town in the 1930s and I, at the time being a average middle school girl in Gig Harbor, we share similar stories about our first days of school.