Chapter Two - Scout's First Day At School

Scout starts school and has a teacher called Miss Caroline Fisher, who doesn't understand the culture and ways of Maycomb County. Scout is already very educated for a girl of her age and can already read and write which Miss Caroline disapproves of. Scout is told to stop reading and writing at home because she shouldn't be as 'developed' as she already is. Walter Cunningham is introduced because he doesn't have anything to eat for lunch. Miss Caroline offers him money for some lunch but he refuses as it is tradition in his family that they do not take anything that they cannot pay back. Scout has to explain all of this to Miss Caroline and the teacher takes it as Scout being rude about her fellow classmate. As a result of this, Miss Caroline hits Scout half a dozen times on her hand with a ruler.