What is bothering Scout about her teacher Miss Gates?
Scout is puzzled (confused) because she does not understand how Miss Gates can discriminate against black people and be against Hitler. How is Hitler persecuting Jews different from her persecuting blacks? This question upsets Scout.
What is Scout’s reaction to Miss Gates?
According to Miss Gates, “it’s time somebody taught ’em a lesson, they were gettin’ way above themselves, an’ the next thing they think they can do is marry us.” Scout is so shocked by what she overhears that she brings her concerns to Jem.
Who is Miss Gates and why did Scout think that she was a hypocrite?
Scout finds Miss Gates to be a hypocrite because she says Hitler is wrong to kill the Jews, but she is heard saying that Tom should be killed to “teach ’em a lesson”. She opposes the killing of whites, but condones the killing of blacks.
What is the purpose of Miss Gates Scout’s teacher in the novel?
Miss Gates is Scout’s third-grade teacher in chapter 26 of To Kill a Mockingbird. She then teaches about the difference between a democracy and a dictatorship. The ironic and hypocritical comment from Miss Gates is as follows: “Over here we don’t believe in persecuting anybody.
What lesson does Scout learn in Chapter 27?
Scout learns she is to be part of the pageant entitled Maycomb County: Ad Astra Per Aspera, written by Mrs. Grace Merriweather, one of the ladies in Aunt Alexandra’s Missionary Society. She and some of the other children will be in costumes designed to look like Maycomb’s agricultural products.
Why is scout so angry at Miss Gates?
Scout is angry at Miss Gates, because Miss Gates does not see something very clearly. In other words, she has enormous blind spots. She is able to see that Hitler is an evil leader because he persecutes the Jews, but she is not able to see how those of Maycomb persecute blacks – especially in the case of Tom Robinson.
Why did Jem get so angry at Scout?
Why did Jem get so angry at Scout? Scout finds Miss Gates hypocritical because she remembers that on the day of Tom’s trial, she overheard Miss Gates say that she thought it was, “time somebody taught them a lesson, they thought they was getting’ way above themselves, an’ the next thing they think they can do is marry us.”
What did Miss Gates say in to kill a Mockingbird?
Scout notices (and is confused) by the hypocrisy when Miss Gates says Black people should be kept in their places. Earlier, in class, Miss Gates had criticized the Nazis’ treatment of Jews, going …
What did Miss Gates say to Miss Crawford?
Yet Scout overhears Miss Gates tell Miss Crawford that the blacks are “getting way above themselves,” and she’s worried that they’ll begin to start marrying whites. This is the same type of fear that Hitler advanced in his own speeches, and Scout is rightly perplexed as to why Miss Gates can have two very different views.