Mariyan Hassany 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
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Miss Caroline is unaware of the Cunningham’s financial situation. When she notices that walter doesn’t have a lunch‚ she is curious as to why. She offers him a quarter and when he refuses‚ Miss Caroline becomes hostile. Scout tries to explain to her that the Cunningham’s never take what they can’t pay back. Due to the difference in background between the students and Miss Caroline‚ she is unaware of how the people in Maycomb live. It is presumed that Miss Caroline comes from a more well off background
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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
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Miss Caroline Fisher Miss Caroline Fisher is one of the characters of the book “Killing a Mockingbird”. At first she appears in the second chapter. She was a teacher for first grade students‚ her age was nearly twenty-one. Miss Caroline was from North Alabama‚ from Winston Country. She was a bit conservative young woman and wanted to control and teach students in her own way‚ that’s why she told Scout not to read with her father because it would bring damage to further studying. She was trying
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Character Analysis of Miss Brill & Miss Emily In both stories “A Rose for Emily” and “Miss Brill” the two main characters experience harsh criticism from the outside world. Rejection‚ isolation and loneliness are the major experiences that each character faced‚ but the way they were handled and done were different. Another different thing about them is that Emily Grierson avoids her townsmen and Miss Brill embraces her townsmen and wants to be a part of their world. Emily Grierson and Miss Brill
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The Accomplished Woman: An Examination of Miss Caroline Bingley Miss Caroline Bingley is a character that few can ignore in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Caroline can be described as the high-class socialite who is both respected and despised for her prideful qualities. Yet Caroline is portrayed quite differently in the 2005‚ 1995‚ and 1940 Pride and Prejudice films. This paper analyzes the particular scene in which Caroline describes what it means to be an accomplished woman in the
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are Selfish increase his moral growth. Widow Douglas‚ a character who displays selfishness‚ uses Huck in a self-serving way to please herself. Widow Douglas believes she is helping Huck grow into a well-civilized young man‚ but does
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The two protagonists from “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” and “Miss Brill” have different lives‚ but still share similarities within their personality and the way they view life and themselves. Granny Weatherall lives an eventful life‚ unlike Miss Brill who has set a routine. However‚ both of this characters have a hard time letting go of the past‚ are easily upset when they are not in control and consequently‚ they each have developed their own mechanism to protect themselves from emotional pain
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This statement suggests that Sara’s capabilities in an authoritative role are attributed to her amiable persona‚ the exact opposite of the callousness of Miss Minchin. The situation that exemplifies the dichotomy between the strategies that Miss Minchin and Sara use as motherly figures is Lottie’s temper tantrum. Sara had heard Miss Minchin and Miss Amelia trying to suppress Lottie’s wails from the other room to
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but the thorn may hurt you. Similarly‚ it is the same in life. There are many people who don’t look like what they seem. Miss Adela Strangeworth‚ a character in a story “The Possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson‚ is a seventy-one-year old woman who wants to stop the evil from her town. However‚ her efforts made her become a condescending perfectionist with a god complex. Miss Strangeworth shows condescension throughout the whole story. She always thought “the town belonged to her” because “[her]
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