Miss Caroline In To Kill A Mockingbird

In September, Scout and Jem go to school. Their teacher Miss Caroline is strict to the students. Her teaching style pushes them too hard. The students are not adapted to it. Scout has been taught reading by Calpurnia, the cook in her home, in a naive but effective method. It remains unsure whether Miss Caroline will eventually fit into her students and fellow teachers in the town.

Walter is a poor, shy child in the class. He has no book, tidy clothes or even lunch. Atticus helped his father, and Scout sympathizes him. Walter may become a friend of the protagonists' later. How his father pays Atticus back may be interesting to see.

The writer emphasizes on the contrast of Miss Caroline' educated and students' uneducated behaviors. Jem says