In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, why is Scout Finch so looking forward to starting school?
2007-01-15 15:55:56 · 4 answers · asked by Howard . 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Scout is a bright and inquisitive girl. She started to read at a very young age and enjoys the time she has every day reading with her father Atticus. Atticus has by example instilled the value of knowledge and has encouraged her to ask questions.
Scout feels that school will be an extension of this but she is soon disappointed and frustrated when she realises that she is far ahead of her classmates in reading and that her teacher wants to dumm her down rather than extend her desire for knowledge. The teacher also criticises her beloved father for teaching her to read in " the wrong way ". Scout becomes very disillusioned with the process of formal schooling.
2007-01-15 19:05:59 · answer #1 · answered by lizzie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout experiences and observes acts of prejudice and their effects on Maycomb County.
2016-05-24 20:25:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it is a place where you can learn more, and meet other people who are learning as much as you, and she hopes that the pther people are nice to her and are as excited about learning as she is.
2007-01-15 16:38:35 · answer #3 · answered by amazon 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Weren't you excited on your first day of school, when you got to go with the "big kids"?
2007-01-15 16:04:36 · answer #4 · answered by runner08 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋