This chapter contains several examples of characters judging each other or making assumptions about one another. What assumptions does Miss Caroline make about the students in her class?

Miss Caroline is an outsider in the school and the community. She does not understand the culture of the area. She assumes the kids are just like children in larger urban centers. Maycomb county children are portrayed as a mainly poor, uneducated, rough, rural group ("most of them had chopped cotton and fed hogs from the time they were able to walk"), in contrast to Miss Caroline, who wears makeup and "looked and smelled like a peppermint drop."