When Scout first appears in the novel, she is a intelligent little girl who sees Maycomb as an old tired town. Throughout the book she has learned that there are different type of folks. Their are poor folks such as the Cunninghams and the Ewells. Walter Cunningham goes to school with Scout in first grade in the beginning of the book. Her first grade teacher Miss Caroline doesn’t know that Walter is poor so she asked why Walter hadn’t brought a lunch. Walter said he forgot it that morning and when Miss Caroline offered him a quarter for lunch he didn’t accept it. According to the text “Walter Cunningham’s face told everybody in the first grade he had hookworms. His absence of shoes told us how he got them. People got hookworms going barefoot