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…
damage
.
”(PDF pg 17)
I believe that this shows how narrow minded Miss Caroline is towards Scout, she refuses to listen to her and what she has to say about her false statement. Another thing is, whenever she sees Scout writing in print or disrespects by talking back to her she decides to humiliate and punish her in front of the other students, “ Miss Caroline picked up her ruler, gave me half a dozen quick little pats, then told me to stand in the corner. A storm of laughter broke loose when it finally occurred to the class that Miss Caroline had whipped me..
”
(PDF pg 22) This conflict that starts to stir up in chapter 2 is one example of comingofage because as Scouts continues to get older, and more mature about her surroundings, she starts to realize how
prejudice and ignorant people can be in the real world. For example, when Miss Caroline tries to offer to Walter Cunningham, Scout stands up in class and says, “
You're shaming him, Miss
Caroline.
..”(PDF pg 21) and instead of trying to understand Scout’s explanation, Miss Caroline gets frustrated with her, “
“Jean Louise, I’ve had about enough of you this morning,” she said. “You’re starting off on the wrong foot in every way, my dear. Hold out your hand.”. (
PDF pg
22)
I think that it affects her terribly because no matter how many she tries to prove Miss Caroline wrong, she just won’t listen to her and also it affects her love for reading because when she fakes being “sick”, Atticus asks her what’s wrong and why she doesn’t want to go to school, and she replies with,
“and she said you taught me all wrong, so we can’t ever read any more, ever.
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
22) during her long meaningful talk with Atticus, they both find a solution for Scout’s conflict with her teacher. “They agree to still continue read late at night as long as she continues going to
school, “
If you’ll concede the necessity of going to school, we’ll go on reading every night just as we always have. Is it a bargain?”
(PDF pg 32) Also, Atticus tells Scout to not mention their argument to Miss Caroline, because he doesn’t want her coming after him and turning the conflict into something that’s bigger and irrelevant, “ By the way, Scout, you’d better not say anything at school about our agreement.” (PDF pg 32)
In all honesty, even though Miss
Caroline appears to look rude, I think that Scout just needs to give her a little time to settle in Maycomb County and get used to everyone and her surroundings.
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…
damage
.
”(PDF pg 17)
I believe that this shows how narrow minded Miss Caroline is towards Scout, she refuses to listen to her and what she has to say about her false statement. Another thing is, whenever she sees Scout writing in print or disrespects by talking back to her she decides to humiliate and punish her in front of the other students, “ Miss Caroline picked up her ruler, gave me half a dozen quick little pats, then told me to stand in the corner. A storm of laughter broke loose when it finally occurred to the class that Miss Caroline had whipped me..
”
(PDF pg 22) This conflict that starts to stir up in chapter 2 is one example of comingofage because as Scouts continues to get older, and more mature about her surroundings, she starts to realize how
prejudice and ignorant people can be in the real world. For example, when Miss Caroline tries to offer to Walter Cunningham, Scout stands up in class and says, “
You're shaming him, Miss
Caroline.
..”(PDF pg 21) and instead of trying to understand Scout’s explanation, Miss Caroline gets frustrated with her, “
“Jean Louise, I’ve had about enough of you this morning,” she said. “You’re starting off on the wrong foot in every way, my dear. Hold out your hand.”. (
PDF pg
22)
I think that it affects her terribly because no matter how many she tries to prove Miss Caroline wrong, she just won’t listen to her and also it affects her love for reading because when she fakes being “sick”, Atticus asks her what’s wrong and why she doesn’t want to go to school, and she replies with,
“and she said you taught me all wrong, so we can’t ever read any more, ever.
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
22) during her long meaningful talk with Atticus, they both find a solution for Scout’s conflict with her teacher. “They agree to still continue read late at night as long as she continues going to
school, “
If you’ll concede the necessity of going to school, we’ll go on reading every night just as we always have. Is it a bargain?”
(PDF pg 32) Also, Atticus tells Scout to not mention their argument to Miss Caroline, because he doesn’t want her coming after him and turning the conflict into something that’s bigger and irrelevant, “ By the way, Scout, you’d better not say anything at school about our agreement.” (PDF pg 32)
In all honesty, even though Miss
Caroline appears to look rude, I think that Scout just needs to give her a little time to settle in Maycomb County and get used to everyone and her surroundings.