Chapter 2

Chapter 2

It's September and Dill is moving out of Maycomb County to return to the town of Meridian. Meanwhile Scout is growing up and is about to attend her first day at school, she had been eagerly anticipating this but she isn't as please when she arrives and meets her teacher who she agrees deels poorly with children. When Miss Caroline decides that Atticus must have taught Scout before hand how to read. This made Scout feel as if she was in trouble that she was well educated. Scout complains to Jem, but Jem says that Miss Caroline is just trying out a new method of teaching.
Miss Caroline and Scout get along badly in the afternoon as well. Walter Cunningham, a boy in Scout’s class, has not brought a lunch. Miss Caroline offers him a quarter to buy lunch, telling him that he can pay her back tomorrow. Walter’s family is large and poor—so poor that they pay Atticus with hickory nuts, turnip greens, or other goods when they need legal help—and Walter will never be able to pay the teacher back or bring a lunch to school. When Scout attempts to explain these circumstances, however, Miss Caroline fails to understand and grows so frustrated that she slaps Scout’s hand with a ruler.