Summary Of Harper Lee's 'To Kill A Mockingbird'

For my comic, I chose a scene that takes place during Scout’s first day at school. Before she had actually gone to class, Scout was eager to go and learn. She saw her brother, Jem, in school and hoped to join him. Scout said, “I had never looked forward more to anything in my life,” (Lee 15). When she is old enough to go learn, she was estatic. Jem takes her to her classroom, and she meets her teacher, Miss Caroline, who disappoints her greatly. To begin, Scout demonstrates that she already knows how to read, and Miss Caroline tells her that she must relearn everything she knows because, “It’s best to begin reading with a fresh mind,” (Lee 17). This is an embarassing and confusing moment for Scout, and it only gets worse when she attempts to help her teacher understand the situation of …show more content…
She has been pretty sheltered for most of her life, and when she goes out and meets more people, she finds that the world is not how she imagined it would be. Some of her innocnence is lost during her first day of school because she has been repremanded for doing what she thought was good. Her confusion is shown when she is told to hold out her hand, and Scout says, “ I thought she was going to spit on it, which was the only reason anybody in Maycomb held out his hand: it was a time-honored method of sealing oral contracts,” (Lee 21-22). It is almost as if her world had been turned upside down when what she expects to happen never occurs. It is clearly an important plot event because her passion for learning has been crushed, and Scout no longer wishes to go to school. Scout has had her first interaction with the real world, and she does not like it. Who was once a innocent girl with a love for reading is beginning to become a confused individual who’s interests are frowned upon by people she thought she could