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?”’
Scout finally learns the importance of perspective change from her father, Atticus. He says, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. ”(1). Other than Scout, her teacher Ms. Caroline also shows signs of walking in someone else’s shoes. At first, she is unaware of how each family go about their day in Maycomb, and seems reluctant to change her ways.
When Scout is unable to understand why her teacher, Miss Caroline, does not want her to read at home anymore, Atticus wants her to see the situation from Miss Caroline’s point of view. He tells Scout, “If you can learn a simple trick, 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 - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (39). The “simple trick” Atticus is talking about is empathy.
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.
From this advice Scout could understand why miss Caroline reacted the way she did by punishing Scout for being able to read by a method not of hers. Scout can utilize this “trick” as Atticus uses it throughout her entire life to better understand people. By the end of the book Scout could have used her father’s advice several times. One major occasion was to see why Mayella went with the story that Tom Robison raped her.
Childhood is something extremely important in the development of people, and whether their adolescence is good or bad, it often shapes their futures and personalities. The book In The Time Of The Butterflies by Julia Alverez demonstrates this while simultaneously bringing readers into the world of young revolutionary women. Alvarez tells the story of four young women who live in the Dominican Republic and start seeing the world in a new light as they mature from sheltered individuals who speak to barely anyone outside of their family and neighbors, to school girls learning about corruption in the outside world; Minerva, the oldest of the sisters, was the first to start the descent into rebellion. When the Mirabal sisters were young,
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 spite of Scout’s inability to fully comprehend the significance of what Atticus is doing for Tom, she readies herself to defend Atticus, which ultimately portrays that she does not regard society’s expectations on how she should
Atticus tells Scout “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around in it,” (p. 39). because he wants her to know that to understand the things Miss Caroline does, Scout must try and look at it from their perspective. Scout does this when she remarks, “She had learned not to hand something to a Cunningham, for one thing, but if Walter and I had put ourselves in her shoes we’d have seen it as an honest mistake on her part.” (p. 40). Atticus is attempting to make Scout realize Miss Caroline won’t know everything about Maycomb in a day.
Scout admits she feels fine and Atticus asks her what is wrong. She tells him that her teacher, Miss Caroline, says that they cannot read together anymore because she is too advanced for her age. Atticus responds with, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view … until you climb into his skin and walk around in it,”(Lee 39). Though Scout does not fully understand the concept of this lesson, it slowly comes to her as the book advances. She is able to make many connections using what Atticus taught her, and she truly understands the meaning of standing in another person’s shoes.
In response, Atticus claims that "you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." Scout does not like or want to return to school, primarily because of Miss Caroline. You can never completely understand what someone is going through, according to this quotation. Scout is learning from Atticus that there is more to a person than meets the
In chapter two, Scout went to her first day of school and met her teacher, Miss Caroline. Scout was trying to explain why Walter Cunningham would not take Miss Caroline’s money, but Miss Caroline would not listen to her. I found that this was rude of the teacher to ignore Scout, because I believe that a person should listen to and respect what someone says, no matter
In the beginning of the book in chapter 3 Scout is shouted on her first day of school for knowing how to read, and for trying to help Miss Caroline by explaining who Walter Cunning is and that she has shamed him. Atticus tells Scout that “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view until you climb into his skin and walk around it. In the early chapters the kids are
“If 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 from his point of view—” (Lee, 30). After Atticus tells her this, she considers Miss Caroline’s point of view. She realizes that it was an honest mistake and that she is incapable of learning Maycomb’s ways in a day. Scout applies the skill Atticus
