We need to
keep in mind that Miss Caroline
Fisher is presented comically through the eyes of six-year-old .
Would we get
a different impression if the story were told from Miss Fisher's perspective
or
from the point-of-view of a neutral observer? Could Scout be more of a
handful than she wants us
to believe?
Scout presents Miss
Fisher as an outsider who does not understand
the ways or social hierarchy of
Maycomb. Miss Fisher doesn't understand the Cunninghams. She
also has a
comical lack of common sense in that she puts what she has been taught about
how to teach reading ahead of the value of a child coming to
school
actually knowing how to read. It is less important to her that Scout
can read than that Scout
be...
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