In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Miss Caroline is treated poorly because some of her students think she is picking on a kid that comes from a poor family. It is the first day of first grade for Scout and Miss Caroline is her teacher. Miss Caroline's students do not realize that she is not trying to pick on a student named Walter when she tries to be nice by paying for his lunch but does not know that he would have to pay the money back. “You’re shamin’ him, Miss Caroline. Walter hasn’t got a quarter at home to bring you”.(Lee 28)
In the book Bad Boy Walter is a called a bad boy. This is true because he hits a lot of other students when he is in school. This is mentioned when it says, “Manuel stopped the ‘dabba-dabba-dabba’ when I hit him in the face” (18). While Manuel had made fun of Walter using violence is much worse than insults.
She learns how to appreciate people’s point of view. Scout learns this when talking to Miss Caroline. She tries to explain the history, traditions, and daily life of Maycomb but Miss Caroline simply just doesn’t understand it. After Scout tells Atticus about her day at school, he tells her, “You can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.” - page 85-87 Scout looks up to Atticus and takes his statement to
Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me anymore, it would interfere with my reading.” (Lee 19). Scout shows her curiosity by questioning about her life and her community. For example, Scout asks Atticus Calpurnia, Jem and Miss Maudie question because scout wants to know everyone and is very curious. “‘Are we poor Atticus?”’
The hard working lawyer taught Scout to read at an early age. Scout was highly privileged to be able to read the same books that her father read. Even though teaching Scout to read was looked down upon by their hometown, Maycomb County that did not stop Atticus from trying to further educate his daughter. Even Scout’s first grade teacher, Miss Caroline, had told her “to tell [her] father to stop teaching [her] how to read.” (Lee 24) Miss Caroline's reasoning for this statement is that she thinks that Scout could learn better in school, than at home.
Since Scout was already on the bad side of Miss. Caroline didn’t want to get in trouble again. But she ends up standing up for Walter Cunningham because he couldn’t speak up for himself. Causing her to get in more trouble with the teacher and her getting hit in the hand with a ruler and forced to stand in the corner.
Scout is also a very intelligent to be so young. For example “… after making me read most of my first reader and the stock market quotations from the mobile register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more faint distaste.’ (lee 22) miss caroline is shocked that scout can read at such a young age. Later scout proves that not only is she educated in school but well educated in school and about life in maycomb. She clearly explains that to miss Caroline “ miss Caroline and I had conferred twice already and they were all looking at me in the innocent assurance that familiar breeds understanding.
Throughout the book, Atticus tries very hard not to expose his children to Maycomb’s disease, but his attempt in sheltering them from the racism flowing throughout the town isn’t as successful as he had hoped; Jem and Scout are picture perfect examples of what the loss of innocence can do to children. On Scout’s first day of school, she is about as excited as a child can get; naturally, she would think her teacher would be amazed at her astounding reading capabilities, but upon reading the alphabet and quotes about the stock-market from The Mobile Register; and explaining that her father, Atticus, taught her what she knew Miss Caroline simply said that Atticus, “does not know how to teach” (23). Just by telling her this Scout felt as if it
Mrs. Caroline had a "new" way teaching that year and Scout being more advanced, didn't follow that "new" way of teaching. Mrs. Caroline's way was probably to have everyone on same track. No one behind and no one ahead. It's probably easiest to teach that way. Mrs. Caroline then tells Scout that her father has to stop teaching her but, Scout takes it as an insult.
Caroline to understand that she was shaming Walter. Scout gets punished unreasonably. Scout’s way of bringing justice was not ideal, but she had done it for the sake of others, and often got punished for
In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, Jean Louise tells Atticus about her first day of school, Mr.Finch tells her to try to think about things from the other person 's perspective—in this case, Miss Caroline. She, who was only trying to do her best in a strange place, and learning whose ways she didn’t yet understand. It started when a boy in Scout’s class, Walter Cunningham, had not brought lunch so Miss Caroline offers him a quarter to buy lunch, telling him that he can pay her back the next day. Not knowing that Walter’s family is large and poor, and that Walter will never be able to pay the teacher back or bring a lunch to school.
An important lesson that Scout learns is when Atticus teaches him the importance of understanding people's perspectives. Scout has a disagreement with her new teacher, Mrs. Caroline.
Atticus is teaching Scout not to give up because she has had a bad experience and to be a law abiding citizen even if others do not follow the law. During school Ms. Caroline who is a school teacher tells Scout to stop reading. Ms. Caroline upsets Scout which is another reason Scout does not want to return to school. Atticus explains “ If you’ll concede the necessity of going to school, we’ll go on reading every night..” (Lee 41).
In 1637 about 100 Massachusetts Bay colonists were ordered to surrender their “guns, pistols, swords, powder, shot & match”, said Barbara Mantel. In 1813, Kentucky and Louisiana became the first states to ban the carrying of concealed weapons. In 1986, the NRA scored a victory when President Ronald Reagan signed into law the Firearm Owners ' Protection Act. Currently about six states must have insurance on their gun. “Insurance will cover you if your home burns down in an electrical fire, but it will not cover you if you burn down your own house, and you cannot insure yourself for arson,” said Robert P. Hartwig, Garen Wintemute had some very good points to back up his belief.
This is evident when Miss Caroline looked at Scout “with more than faint distaste.” after she reveals to Miss Caroline her capability to read and write. The noun phrase, faint distaste, shows that Miss Caroline is pull out by Scout’s knowledge, as she preserve that grade one students were not suppose to know how to read and write. From what she expected, we can deduce that Miss Caroline’s teaching method is impersonal, and does not suit the needs of the students in Maycomb’s society. With her incapability to differentiate for different abilities, Scout will not be challenged academically and learning is lost.
