Many things happen throughout these chapters in To Kill A Mockingbird. The kids are playing games that sort of make fun of Boo Radley. Atticus of course tells them to stop because they don't fully understand what the Radley's are all about. Also Atticus tells Scout to not judge a person until you've climbed into their skin and lived like they did for a day. Miss Maudie appears and becomes sort of a mother figure for the kids. Basically a ton of things are happening throughout these 7 chapters.
Atticus tells Scout to not judge a person until you've climbed into their skin. Let's climb into Miss Caroline's skin. Miss Caroline is Scout's teacher and she seems to be very angry about life. She is quite mean to all of her students. You can sort of tell that she hates her job at Maycomb. She also doesn't like many residents of the town. She spends all day dealing with their kids and being depressed and sad. In a typical day, Miss Caroline wakes up and gets ready for her job. She goes to the school and teaches her class that she hates. Miss Caroline likes to yell at her class and think she is better than everybody else. Miss Caroline does not really have many emotions about all of the events happening in town. Most likely she would be irritated though from what I have read. Scout should not judge Miss Caroline until she spends a day in her crappy life.
A lot of things happen during these chapters. Scout and Jem learn some life lessons from Atticus. Also Atticus starts a very important trial for his job. In the future I expect there will be a lot of drama with the court case. Scout and Jem will probably get into some trouble with the Radleys as well. I'm excited to keep reading on and learning more from this book!
You provided a summary of chapters 2-9. You also described Miss Caroline's personality and what you believe to be her perspective on Maycomb.
ReplyDeleteI have one main suggestion: use first person in your account of a day in the life of Miss Caroline (I checked the blog assignment description--it does say a first person narrative--just saying).
When you make changes, comment so I know!