In To Kill a Mockingbird, like her father, Scout generally assumes that most people are good-hearted. How is this aspect of her character...

Early in the novel, Scout's naive reaction to the mob
accosting her father outside the town jail gives the reader a sense of her innocent view
of human nature, as she strikes up a friendly conversation with Walter Cunningham's
father.  She mentions what a nice boy Walter is, and casually inquires whether Mr.
Cunningham's "entailment" (his debt to her father) is coming along.  This is enough to
remind Mr. Cunningham that Atticus has been very good to him; the mob mentality is
broken, and Atticus surreptiously wipes away a tear when he realizes that his daughter
may have saved his life, or Tom Robinson's, or
both.

Probably the most telling aspect of Scout's
character, as well as her father's, occurs at the end of the novel after the incident
with Bob Ewell.  As Atticus is tucking Scout into bed, she is fighting back sleep as she
relates to him the plot of a book called The Gray Ghost.  This that story, a character
is wrongly accused of a crime, pursued as a criminal, then finally proven
innocent. 

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“When they finally saw him, why he hadn’t done
any of those things . . . Atticus, he was real nice. . . .” His hands were under my
chin, pulling up the cover, tucking it around me. “Most people are, Scout, when you
finally see them.”