Chapter+2

Chapter 2:
 * Describe the classroom and classmates - Miss Caroline doesn't treat her students well. She is not from the town, so she doesn't know the families. She's young, so she can't handle some of the students. Burris Ewells is rude, poor, and only goes to the first day of school. Walter Cunningham is polite, but is extremely poor, so he does not have lunch or shoes. The whole class is chaotic.
 * Describe and analyze Walter Cunningham and his family- Walter Cunningham’s family is very poor and doesn’t borrow money because they know they will not be able to pay it back. When they do borrow anything, it is always repaid in other things that are useful. Walter’s family is very nice and very concerned about farming. Walter doesn’t usually get to finish the school year because his father makes him stay home in the spring to help him farm.
 * Include signs of hard economic times (throughout the whole chapter) - Walter Cunningham does not have lunch, he does not have any shoes, and the Cunninhams do not take anything they cannot pay back. The narration says, “He had probably never seen three quarters together at the same time in his life.” (Lee 20). Scout says, “They don’t have much, but they get along on it.” (Lee 20). The Cunninghams pay Atticus back in stovewood, hickory nuts, smilax, holly, and turnip greens because that is the only way they can and the little money they made went to paying interest on their mortgage. When Scout asked Atticus if they were poor, his response was, “We are indeed.” (Lee 21). The narration says, “Atticus said professional people were poor because the farmers were poor. As Maycomb County was farm country, nickels and dimes were hard to come by for doctors and dentists and lawyers.” (Lee 21).
 * Analyze the allusions on page 21- The Great Depression, Stock market collapse, “Not exactly. The Cunninghams are country folks, farmers, and the crash hit them hardest.” (Lee 21). -WPA-Work Progress Administration that supplied jobs for the unemployed, “If he held his mouth right, Mr. Cunningham could get a WPA job, but his land would go to ruin if he left it, and he was willing to go hungry to keep his land and vote as he pleased.” (Lee 21).

