Chapter 2: TKAM questions Ms. Mulligan


  1. Scout tells us the following about her teacher on the first day of school: Miss Caroline was no more than twenty one. She had bright auburn hair,pink cheeks, and wore crimson fingernail polish. She also wore high-heeled pumps and a red and white striped dress. She looked and smelled like a peppermint drop. Analyze the descriptive language Lee uses to describe  Miss Caroline. What words or phrases help you visualize her? What figurative language does the author use? How does the Author use the description of Miss Caroline to suggest something about her personality and style as a teacher? How does the description accentuates the personality clash between Scout and her teacher?
  2. Scout reflects: “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing” What comparison is Lee suggesting in these two sentences? What does it suggest about how Scout thinks about reading?
  3.  When  Scout introduces Walter  to her teacher by saying, “ Miss caroline he’s a Cunningham” what does Scout assume that Miss Caroline will automatically understand about him? What characteristics do the residents of Maycomb automatically associate with the “the cunningham tribe” ?
  4.  How does the membership in various groups, families,schools, neighborhoods, nations  affect how others think about us? How does it affect how we think about ourselves? Are those impressions ever accurate?
  5. How are readers and Miss Caroline similar in their understanding of Maycomb society at this point in the novel? How does Harper Lee uses the character of Miss caroline to introduce readers to what everyone else in Maycomb already “knows”? 
  6.  What words and phrases do Scout and Atticus use to describe the Cunninghams in this chapter? How are the Cunninghams different from the finches? How are there similar?


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