Various points are made throughout the chapters to show the failure of the Maycomb Education system. This is mainly shown through the lack of Miss Caroline’s teaching as she thinks she is qualified to teach. However, not. In many ways, Harper Lee shows the failure of education in the Maycomb county. Lee’s use of vocabulary and quotations depict how and why failure is shown throughout the teachings of Miss Caroline.
In the first few paragraphs of chapter two. Harper Lee establishes failure of the education system in Maycomb through the lack of teaching from Miss Caroline which Scout cannot relate to. Once Scout reveals to Miss Caroline that she can read and write perfectly. Miss Caroline reacts “with more than faint distaste”. The noun phrase
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This is evident when another teacher reprimands Miss Caroline in front of the class, saying “If I hear another sound coming from this classroom, I’ll burn up everybody in it.” The metaphor shows how angry the teacher is because of the noise made which reflects that they are not concentrating or learning anything. This also suggests that Miss Caroline has not been trained to teach properly.
Lee also shows the failure of the Maycomb education system by showing the lack of interest in Miss Caroline’s story. This is shown when Scout observes that the students were: “wriggling like a bucket of catawba worms”. The simile shows the reader that Miss Caroline misunderstands the needs of the class and what would engage them. As the children are still in first grade, they would not be interested in listening in farm animal stories and therefore the learning is lost in the children’s mind.
Throughout a lesson from Miss Caroline, Miss Caroline’s lack of classroom also reflects the failure of education. This is evident when Miss Caroline is interrupted by another teacher, saying: “If I hear another sound coming from this classroom, I’ll burn up everybody in it.” The metaphor used, shows how angry the teacher is because of amount of noise made which reflects as they are not concentrating in class. This also suggests that Miss Caroline hasn’t been trained to teach