What does scout say Mr Ewell died doing? Who all dies in To Kill a Mockingbird? Who is Atticus father? Why is Atticus a hero? What message did Atticus convey? What is Atticus trying to convey to Jem and Scout? What famous quote did Atticus use in his closing speech? Previous Article Why Is Massachusetts a good place to live? Next Article What is Milka chocolate made of? Back To Top. This makes her first day as a teacher even harder because the children think that people from Winston County are weird.
She also has no experience in the classroom. In the episode you are talking about, the teacher Miss Gates is talking about current events. Specifically, she is talking about the Nazi regime in Germany and what they are doing to Jews and other people they don't like so Hitler is in power as leader of the Nazi Party. Atticus does believe that Jem killed Bob Ewell. He tells Sheriff Tate that Scout said that Jem got up and yanked Ewell off her, and "he [Jem] probably took Ewell's knife somehow in the dark.
She opposes the killing of whites, but condones the killing of blacks. Terms in this set 76 Burris Ewell makes his appearance on Scout's first day of school.
Miss Caroline is Scout's young first-grade teacher who gets on Scout's bad side by telling her that she can't read with Atticus anymore because he doesn't know how to teach.
Miss Gates Scout's second grade teacher. Church who is upset when Scout and Jem attend services there. Miss Caroline is definitely not a good teacher. Although she purports to know the latest techinques taught her in college, there is more to being a good teacher than just rote knowledge. Miss Caroline is haughty, prejudicial, and arrogant. Boo Radley is a neighbour of the Finch family. When he was young he began to associate with a gang of boys and gradually they became a nuisance in Maycomb, drinking whiskey and going to dances at a gambling den.
Atticus is not a typical parent. Lee does an expert job of getting this message across to readers simply by having the children call Atticus by his first name. He treats his children as individuals and speaks to them in an adult-like manner. Scout accepts this behavior as normal, noting, "Jem and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and we were at all times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when it was beyond our understanding.
Other people don't understand "Maycomb's ways. When Miss Caroline announces her county of origin, "The class murmured apprehensively, should she prove to harbor her share of the peculiarities indigenous to that region.
When Scout tries to explain Walter Cunningham's predicament to Miss Caroline by simply saying, "'he's a Cunningham,'" she remarks to readers "I thought I had made things sufficiently clear. It was clear enough to the rest of us. Ironically, Scout soon learns that she doesn't understand as much about "Maycomb's ways" as she thinks. When Scout uses Burris Ewell's lack of regular school attendance as a good reason that she shouldn't have to go to school either, Atticus explains that "In certain circumstances, the common folk judiciously allowed them certain privileges by the simple method of becoming blind to some of the Ewells' activities.
Lee uses that explanation as foreshadowing — a literary device that alludes to something that will happen later in the story — of Mayella Ewell's reliance on special consideration for the accusations she brings against Tom Robinson. Readers should note, too, that Lee masterfully keeps Boo Radley in the back of reader's minds by commenting that Scout "passed the Radley Place for the fourth time that day — twice at full gallop," while developing other major themes.
Must be accepting of others' shortcomings. From Scout's perspective, all people, regardless of their station in life, are held to the same standards. This topsy-turvy educational outlook fails catastrophically to meet the needs of either student. Scout, who is commonsensical enough to perceive this failure immediately, is frustrated by her inability to understand why her teacher acts as she does, and why she, Scout, continually incurs disfavor for well-intentioned actions.
This interaction sets a pattern for the book and for the basic development of Scout as a character: whether dealing with adults or with other children, Scout always means well, and her nature is essentially good.
Her mistakes are honest mistakes, and while there is evil all around her in the novel, it does not infect her, nor does injustice disillusion her, as it does Jem. At the end of Chapter 2, Scout, acting on her best intentions as always , tries to explain the Cunninghams to Miss Caroline. Young Walter Cunningham is the first glimpse we get of the Cunningham clan, part of the large population of poor farmers in the land around Maycomb. Scout notes in Chapter 1 that Maycomb was a run-down town caught up in the Great Depression, but so far, we have seen only the upper-class side of town, represented by relatively successful and comfortable characters such as Atticus.
Now, however, we begin to see the rest of Maycomb, represented by the struggling Cunninghams and the dirt-poor Ewells. A correlation between social status and moral goodness becomes evident as the novel progresses.
At the top of this pyramid rests Atticus, a comparatively wealthy man whose moral standing is beyond reproach. Beneath him are the poor farmers such as the Cunninghams. The Ewells are below even the Cunninghams on the social ladder, and their unapologetic, squalid ignorance and ill tempers quickly make them the villains of the story.
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