Miss Caroline Character Analysis
Mariyan Hassany
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Period 6th, Honors English Miss Caroline is not only an inexperienced teacher, she is also a foreigner to Maycomb County, and her inexperience causes her to become defensive when she discovers that Scout is the only student in her class that can read and write in print, “ ...and after making me read most of
My First Reader and the stockmarket quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. ”
(PDF pg 17) After a small argument with Scout, Miss Caroline orders Scout to tell Atticus to stop teaching her because he has taught her incorrectly,
“Now you tell your father not to teach you any more. It’s best to begin reading with a fresh mind. You tell him I’ll take over from here and try to undo the …show more content…
Please don’t send me back, please sir.”
(PDF pg 30)
As Atticus and Scout talk about Miss
Caroline and the conflict, another comingofage pops, Atticus gives Scout some good advice about understand people and looking at things from their perspective, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view” (PDF pg 30)
I think that’s a perfect advice for someone as young as Scout, because there are always going to be people that do things for unknown reason and to only understand that is it to crawl into their skin, and see things from their perspective. Even though Scout still hates Miss Caroline’s attitude and how she treats her students, “As I was the last to leave, I saw her sink down into her chair and bury her head in her arms. Had her conduct been more friendly toward me, I would have felt sorry for her ” (PDF pg
021215
Period 6th, Honors English Miss Caroline is not only an inexperienced teacher, she is also a foreigner to Maycomb County, and her inexperience causes her to become defensive when she discovers that Scout is the only student in her class that can read and write in print, “ ...and after making me read most of
My First Reader and the stockmarket quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. ”
(PDF pg 17) After a small argument with Scout, Miss Caroline orders Scout to tell Atticus to stop teaching her because he has taught her incorrectly,
“Now you tell your father not to teach you any more. It’s best to begin reading with a fresh mind. You tell him I’ll take over from here and try to undo the …show more content…
Please don’t send me back, please sir.”
(PDF pg 30)
As Atticus and Scout talk about Miss
Caroline and the conflict, another comingofage pops, Atticus gives Scout some good advice about understand people and looking at things from their perspective, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view” (PDF pg 30)
I think that’s a perfect advice for someone as young as Scout, because there are always going to be people that do things for unknown reason and to only understand that is it to crawl into their skin, and see things from their perspective. Even though Scout still hates Miss Caroline’s attitude and how she treats her students, “As I was the last to leave, I saw her sink down into her chair and bury her head in her arms. Had her conduct been more friendly toward me, I would have felt sorry for her ” (PDF pg