Chapter+2

Chapter 2: >> o She is very embarrassed though by the end of the morning because she knows that she wasn’t being a very good teacher. >> • Walter Cunningham is a poor farmer’s boy and he and his family refuse to take money from people. When Miss Caroline gives him a quarter to buy food, he doesn’t take it because that’s not how he was raised. >> • Miss Blount is the sixth grade teacher who is from Maycomb County so she knows everyone, she is intimidating and the kids listen to her.  • the farmers were poor so the whole town was poor o the town was supported by farmers, and the farmers couldn’t sell their produce so they were hit very hard by the depression • Walter Cunningham was a poor farmer who refused to borrow money because he knew he couldn’t pay it back o the Cunningham’s didn’t have any money so they paid people with things like wood, potatoes, and other gifts • people couldn’t pay for basic needs like shoes, clothing and food o Walter got hookworms from not having shoes when he went outside • the kids appreciated things that we take for granted o Scout loved simple things like playing in the fields with Jem; she didn’t need technology for entertainment
 * __Describe the classroom and classmates__
 * Describe the classroom and classmates
 * • Miss Caroline is an outsider and doesn’t really know how to handle and teach the kids
 * She is controlling so much so, that she doesn’t want her student, Scout to know things that she, herself didn’t teach Scout. She yells at her for knowing how to read.
 * __Describe and analyze Walter Cunningham and his family__
 * The Cunningham family was very poor
 * Walter Cunningham tries to have a good presentation at school *Walter wears a clean shirt, and neatly mended overalls
 * Don’t take anything they can’t pay back *Walter doesn’t accept a quarter from Ms. Caroline for lunch because he knows he won’t be able to pay it back
 * Their family is very honest and tries to pay someone back for their help anyway they can *Mr. Cunningham was Atticus’s client but he couldn’t pay him back in money, so Mr. Cunningham left them gift baskets of crops and firewood instead of money
 * They are farmers so the Depression affected them the worst
 * Loyal to their land *Mr. Cunningham could have gotten a WPA job, but he didn’t want to let his land go to ruins
 * __Include signs of hard economic times (throughout the whole chapter)__

> > • One example of an allusion, is in paragraph 8. The author mentions Mr. Cunningham being able to get a WPA job. > • A WPA job is a U.S. work program for the unemployed. It was created in 1935 and it aimed to stimulate the economy during the Great Depression and preserve the skills and self-respect of unemployed persons by providing them useful work. > • Another example of an allusion, is in paragraph 7: “Not exactly. The Cunninghams are country folks, farmers, and the crash hit them the hardest.” > • In this passage, the author is referring crash to the Wall Street Crash of 1929. > • During this time, the stock market decreased drastically, two days after the stock market reached its peak. > • These two examples are allusions, because they are references to events that happened in real life.
 * __Analyze the allusions on page 21.__