Chapter 2

In chapter two, we get to know that summer vacation has ended and Dill is ready to leave Maycomb and go back to his town, Meridian. Scout is also ready to go to school for the first time. Scout meets her teacher, Miss Caroline Fisher, who has a classic method of teaching to her students. Scout is a very smart girl, who already knows how to read and write and the fact that she is only in grade one makes Miss Caroline Fisher frustrated because Scout knows more than what she is expected to know. Miss Caroline Fisher concludes that Scouts father, Atticus is the one who has been teaching Scout how to read. Scout knows that Atticus has only read to her, and has never taught her how to read, so she denies what the teacher says. I believe that the teacher is mad because she expected everyone to be at the same level and since that is not the case, her curriculum has to be changed or kept the same as long as Scout does not participate. I believe the teacher should be a grateful for having as student as smart as Scout because that means that she could learn more things at a young age.

A student in Scout´s class called Walter Cunningham doesn’t have lunch, so Miss Caroline gives him a quarter to buy lunch but he does not receive it because he knows that he is not able to pay it back. Walter Cunningham has a large and poor family, and he knows that he can’t pay his teacher so he rather not receive it. Since the teacher insists the boy to take the money, Scout decides to explain the situation but she did not understood and gets frustrated. Scouts ends up been slap with a ruler by the teacher. In the novel we start to see that there is discrimination and bullying done from the teacher to the student.  In addition, The information about the money ( quarter) to buy a lunch and that the teacher slaps Scout´s hand gives us hints that the story does not take  placed in the modern times.