Walter refuses to take the money because his family is too poor to pay it back. He has no money. The Cunninghams are country folks, farmers, and the crash hit them hardest. Miss Caroline tells Scout to stop doing certain things at home because they interfere with her education. Scout taught him to always listen to both sides of the story, and Atticus taught him to always tell children the truth, because they can always spot evasions and those only muddle them.
Scout beat up Cecil Jacobs at the beginning of chapter 9 because he called Atticus a deragatory name, as well. She is mortified by this. Atticus took the case because he needed the money. It shows that Atticus has respect for everyone. You just studied 13 terms! Hover for more information. When the trial ends, Jem seems very confident. Atticus tells him he does not know if he is going to win or lose.
Atticus goes to the jail in hopes that his presence will stop people from dragging Tom Robinson out of the jail and killing him. Earlier in the chapter, Jem and Scout overhear Heck Tate talking to Atticus about not wanting to keep Tom Robinson in the jail on Sunday night the night before the trial starts. Many of the boys at school are intimidated by her physical strength, yet she is told she must learn to handle herself in a ladylike way. Oddly enough, the women in her life impose more rigid requirements on her than the men do.
Scout's tomboyishness drives Aunt Alexandra to distraction; Miss Caroline sees Scout's outspokenness and honesty as impertinence. Ironically, the person she most wants to please — Atticus — is least concerned about her acting in a certain way. In fact she tells Jem, "'I asked him [Atticus] if I was a problem and he said not much of one, at most one he could always figure out, and not to worry my head a second about botherin' him.
The other lesson that Scout is truly able to incorporate into her worldview is the necessity of walking in someone else's shoes. Atticus begins teaching her the importance of looking at things from the other person's point-of-view very early in the story.
He points out her own failings in this area and demonstrates his point in his own interactions with other people. At the end of the story, Scout can put herself in Boo Radley's shoes, the person she's feared most throughout the story.
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