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TKAM Chapters 1-5 (Education Meaning (Jem view education as just an…
TKAM Chapters 1-5
Education Meaning
Jem view education as just an everyday event that he has to attend. On the other hand Scout is ready for all the social fun rather than the learning due to the fact that she knows more than anyone in her class anyways. Atticus views education as a staple of life, and something that every child needs, especially his own children.
Miss Caroline defines education as something that children must follow , especially in her own way. When Scout revealed that she was fully literate unlike the rest of her peers, she was angered and wanted Scout to do away with her education. She thinks her way is best, rather then learn from their own merits. "...She discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me anymore... ," (p.22) this was very telling of how Miss Caroline was enabling her class to understand how she would teach them.
Calpurnia may not have a direct education, but she is able to teach Jem and Scout enough in her daily ways. Cleaning, manners, and respect are many things she is able to teach the children even though she can't teach them as much as she'd like.
The Ewells and the Cunninghams are not very responsive to education, and find it very much unimportant and not worth effort for. Their kids rarely pay attention, and they receive the same bad habits as their parents.
Education had advanced so much, and it is more orderly by many means. Their are honor curriculums, advancements in technology, and common core had made this generation smarter as a whole.
Life Lessons
They need to learn to respect other's property and opinions and as children need to learn how to contain their curiosity in order to avoid getting hurt or in trouble. Atticus told the kids to understand what it was like to put yourself in others' skins which is teaching her to understand people better on the inside rather than judge what people say according to rumors, "As Atticus once advised me had once advised me to do, I tried to climb into Jem's skin and walk around in it." (p. 77)
They learn on their own from their mistakes and playing in the streets. One day, Scout admits that she learned more outside of the classroom than in because she learns what it's like to have manners and put them into action. Coming of age, she learns from those above her and uses them in her own time to not make the same mistakes.
Scout learns more from Atticus because he knows her better personally and doesn't put much thought into it. He focuses on the lasting effect of what he says rather than what he wants her to know specifically like Miss Caroline. They rather learn more from their own father because they have that special bond and relationship that Miss Caroline doesn't care for to strive to have with her students.
Atticus' parenting style forces them to mature faster but they don't have the opportunity to grow up as a child but instead they see things from a more grown up perspective
Being An Outsider
Boo Radley: tucked away in his house, he's rejected from society because he doesn't fit in with society because of the past and the mistakes he's made
Walter Cunningham: viewed as inferior and lower class because his family was affected during the Great Depression
"He would probably have poured it into his milk glass had I not asked what the sam hill was doing." (p. 32)
Miss Caroline: a literal outsider who doesn't even attempt to see the perspective of her new found hometown but instead is so focused on herself and what she wants. She doesn't care for her students' lives but only their education because it's not the type of person she is or will be
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Bringing History Alive
The Great Depression took its toll on Maycomb County by leaving many of the inhabiting families were left dismantled by poverty. The great depression swept all the stores. Even the rich were considered poor. People like the Cunningham's could not eat because they had no money.
People do not help the Cunningham's because everyone is so focused and concerned with their own well being and the investment in themselves and their families
Defining Gender
The boys don't let Scout be involved them and they criticize her for being too much like a girl. She did not like that because all she wanted to do was spend time with them and have fun. She felt like Dill replaced her and she didn't know what to do with herself.
She just wants a say in subjects and during the time life in the 1960's was sexist. She feels belittled and doesn't feel like her gender should matter in what she should be able to do.
By: Miles Cook, Amanda Dominguez, Alex Galvan