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)
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.
At the first of the novel Scout is a bit of a tomboy and is determined to show people her point of view. When Scout started school, she was having a difficult time, because her teacher did not understand the ways of their town, Maycomb County. However, this did not stop Scout from trying to explain to Miss Caroline the ways of the people in Maycomb. “ I thought I had made things
The time where she might not be as likeable is when she told Scout,”…to tell [her] father not to teach [her] as it would interfere with [her] reading. “(Lee 12). Even though this is a sign of inferiority toward Scout, we have to remember Miss Caroline is teaching a class of first graders. Miss Caroline, in
When Scout goes to school, she thinks that her teacher will be glad that she can already read but Miss Caroline has a negative reaction because she states that “Your father does not know how to teach.” His teaching style shapes Scout and Jem to be well-mannered children because they have learned from their mistakes in the
Scout had just started school and was adjusting to how things would be different from last year. She started the year on bad terms with Miss Caroline after she found out she was able to read. Following this,
Scout symbolizing innocence while Miss Caroline symbolizes fear. She even states at the end of page 21 that Scout has been “starting off on the wrong foot in every way, my dear.” Although, Miss Caroline seems to symbolize the fear that she’s in with this first grade class. Scout seems to be her main problem since she not only is literate enough to read The Mobile Register, but she mostly refers to the kids by their surnames as demonstrated on page 20, “He’s a Cunningham, Miss Caroline.” On the same page, Scout then tries to reassure her, but fails with “It’s okay, ma’am, you’ll get to know the county folks after a while.”
Mrs. Caroline seeing Scout with “distaste” portrays that she has a dislike for her, which is ironic because as a school teacher, Mrs. Caroline should appreciate
Moreover, Miss Caroline is a young teacher who is just starting her career and does not know much about the town of Maycomb. For instance, when Walter Cunningham forgets his lunch, Miss Caroline tries to give him money, but when Scout interrupts, Miss Caroline calls Scout in front of the class and says, “Jean Louise, I’ve had enough of you this morning, she said, You’re starting on the wrong foot every way, my dear. Hold out your hand” (Lee 21). Miss Caroline is threatened by Scout’s knowledge about the town for which she punishes Scout and teaches her not to interrupt people. After the incident, Scout had been terrified by the idea of school, but Atticus helps Scout to realize that Scout also has to think about what Miss Caroline is going through as well and to show empathy toward Miss Caroline.
Scout says to Atticus, “If Walter and I put ourselves in her shoes we’d have seen it was an honest mistake on her part” (40). Scout is considering Miss Caroline's perspective, realizing that she and Walter shouldn’t blame Miss Caroline for a mistake. When Scout says,“We could not expect her to learn all Maycomb’s ways in one day, and we could not hold her responsible when she knew no better.” (40) Scout shows that she understands that it’s unfair of her to expect Miss Caroline to know everything about the town when it was only her first day.
Scout shouldn’t have set high expectations for Miss Caroline. And the advice shouldn't only be suited for Miss Caroline, it should also attribute to Burris and Walter. For example, Scout goes on and on about how poor and unfortunate Walter is. And with Burris, she refuses
Miss Caroline might have assumed that all the kids in her class could not read until she heard Scout read. Scout wanted to prove she was ahead of the other children and Miss Caroline was not happy about it; she even assumed that Scout’s father, Atticus, was teaching her to read. Scout was also surprised to hear that Jem did not want her to tag along with him while at school, he said ‘not bother him’ and she was not to approach hin requests to enact a chapter of Tarzan and the Ant Men.
In the Beginning of To Kill a Mockingbird Scout is going to her first day of school. Her teacher is Miss Caroline, a young woman who is not familiar with the ways of Macomb County. She is having a hard time getting used to her new students. Scout has to explain to Miss Caroline about the Cunninghams and does not like being put on the spot. Scout also has to put up with her strange teaching style.
Miss Caroline ,Scout’s teacher,isn't impress that she is literate and thinks it is not good for her reading “You tell him I’ll take over from here and try to undo the damage-”(p.23). Scout ,probably the smartest kid in her class,her teaching telling her
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.
