Miss Gates is Scout's third grade teacher. She is a hypocritical and prejudiced woman. Miss Gates shows lots of sympathy for the Jews in Germany during the class discussion on current events. But Scout overhears her talking about how the black community in Maycomb should be oppressed and feel inferior to whites. Miss Gates has two conflicting ideas on the treatment of people.
Miss Gates dislikes the newspaper from Alabama called The Mobile Register because it is biased against African Americans and supports segregation, contradicting her own views on equality and justice.
The scout's teacher is named Miss Temple.
In "To Kill a Mockingbird," the newspaper article talks about Hitler's treatment of Jews and how Miss Gates disapproves of the persecution. However, Scout overhears Miss Gates making racist comments about African Americans, highlighting the hypocrisy in her views.
scouts 3rd grade teacher
Scout experienced a contradiction when Miss Gates expressed disgust over the persecution of Jews in Germany but held discriminatory beliefs towards African Americans in America. Scout noticed the hypocrisy in Miss Gates' words, as she showed compassion for the oppressed in one country but failed to see the injustice in her own society.
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Miss Gates expresses disapproval of Hitler's treatment of Jews, proclaiming how wrong it is. Scout finds this hypocritical since she recalls Miss Gates making racist comments about black people in Maycomb. Scout is disturbed by the inconsistency between Miss Gates's views on racial injustice in Europe versus in their own community.
Mrs. Gates makes ugly remarks about African-Americans at Tom Robinson's trial. This is the same lady who teaches Scout 3rd grade and talks about Hitler and his persecution of Jews. DrAddAHip
Miss Gates refers to the term "hypocrisy" as meaning equal rights for everyone in Harper Lee's novel "To Kill a Mockingbird".
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She cant understand why Miss Gates goes around hating someone so far away when that someone doesn't pay attention to the evil right in her own town under her nose, for Scout meaning that Miss Gates doesn't see the evil of the killing of the innocent Tom Robinson.