This story is narrated by a young girl named Jean Louise Finch, who is always called by her nickname, Scout. Jem, (scout older brother) sustained many years earlier; she begins by recounting her family history. The first of her ancestors to come to America was a fur-trader and apothecary named Simon Finch, who fled England to escape religious persecution and established a successful farm on the banks of the Alabama River. The farm, called Finch’s Landing, supported the family for many years. The first Finches to make a living away from the farm were Scout’s father, Atticus Finch, who became a lawyer in the nearby town of Maycomb, and his brother, Jack Finch, who went to medical school in Boston. Their sister, Alexandra Finch, stayed to run the Landing.A successful lawyer, Atticus makes a solid living in Maycomb, a tired, poor, old town in the grips of the Great Depression. He lives with Jem and Scout on Maycomb’s main residential street. Their cook, an old black woman named Calpurnia, helps to raise the children and keep the house. Atticus’s wife died when Scout was two, so she does not remember her mother well. But Jem, four years older than Scout, has memories of their mother that sometimes make him unhappy.
It was time scout attended school and jem was to take scout to school.jem told scout not to bother him at school not even tagging behind him during recess time.scout teacher miss caroline was a young lady who is twenty one,she begian the day by reading a story to the class about cats.After the story miss caroline print the alphabet on the blackbord and asked the class if anyone know what that is.miss caroline then choose scout to read it out as she knew her name.miss caroline then realised that scout can read.she was not very please with scout,she thought atticus taught scout to read and she wanted scout to tell atticus to stop teaching her how to read.during recess scout told jem what miss caroline said to her and jem replied her that miss caroline was just teaching her a new method.after recess miss caroline wave cards that was printed with word to scout class.scout felt bored and she started to write a letter to dill,miss caroline saw what she was doing and told her to tell atticus not to teach her to write too.miss caroline told scout that she will only learnt how to write when she reach grade three.but the fact is scout was taught how to write by calpurnia and was rewarded everytime scout pleased her.miss caroline then tell the class to put their lunch box on the table and she went down to have a look,she suddenly come to a halt and asked walter where is his lunch box.walter twitched his jaw when miss caroline asked if he have forgotten to bring his luch box,and he replied yes.miss caroline then gave walter a quarter and asked him to go eat and can paid her back tommorow.walter reject it,miss caroline was getting impatience and asked walter to have it but he reject it again.when walter reject for the third time someone asked scout to tell miss caroline,scout then explain to miss caroline that he is a cunninghams however miss caroline doesn not get what scout was trying to tell her.scout then explain to her that walter was a cunninghams and was enable to return her money but was able to return her with something not in money which she would not use it.miss caroline was angry with scout as she can't understand what scout was saying and dragged scout by the coller to the back of the class, she gave scout a few hit on her plamsand made her stand at a coner t as a punishment
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