Chapter+Two+Summary

It's Early September and Dill leaves to go back to Meridian. Jem and Scout are going to school and it is Scout's first day of school ever. She is really excited. Jem told Scout not to talk to him during school because he is older. Scout's teacher is Miss Caroline, who is really young. During class Miss Caroline makes Scout read in front of the class and she yells at Scout for knowing how to read. She tells Scout not to read with her dad anymore. Scout and Miss Caroline do not get along very well. At lunch, Walter Cunningham forgot his lunch and Miss Caroline offers him money, which he refused to take. Scout explains to Miss Caroline that Walter is very poor and he probably couldn't pay her back. Scout knew this because Walter's father is Atticus' client. She knows that the Cunningham's will never be able to pay them back in money so they pay them in wood, hickory nuts, smilax, hollies, and turnip greens. Atticus is nice enough to let the Cunningham's pay them back with objects and not money. Atticus tells Scout that they are poor, but not as poor as the Cunningham's. Miss Caroline gets mad at Scout for telling her this so she hit Scout on the hand with a ruler. Scout doesn't like school because of her poor relationship with the teacher.