What Is The Significance Of Chapter 2 In To Kill A Mockingbird

Teachers from another state can be harsh. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, is about the main character, Scout, going to school in the Great Depression. Scout learns a lot of lessons through her lifetime, like when she learns about Walter Cunningham being poor and puts syrup on his vegetables. She realizes that she shouldn’t judge anyone and to always put herself in other people's shoes to see what they feel and how their life is. The setting, conflict, and character of Chapter 2 in the novel will reflect the shortcomings of the public education system in the 1930’s. First, the setting of Chapter 2 begins with the school house and the classroom. Scout was excited about starting her school year, but was not prepared. Her father Atticus

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. Miss Caroline didn’t know that Walter Cunningham was poor and she gave Walter a quarter and then the next day Walter didn’t have that exchange for Miss Caroline because he was poor and then Scout stand for him and told Miss Carloine who Walter Cunningham and that next day Walter didn’t have the quarter again so again Scout stood up for him and Miss Caroline wasn’t happy about it that she said,”You’re starting off on the wrong foot in every way,my dear.Hold out your hand,” I thought she was going to spit in it, which was the only reason anybody in Maycomb held out his hand: it was time-honored method of sealing oral contracts. Wondering what bargain we had made, I turned to the class for an answer, but the class looked back at me in puzzlement. Miss Caroline picked up her ruler, gave me half a dozen quick little pats, then told