To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
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To Kill a Mockingbird: Situational Irony 1 key example

Key Examples in To Kill a Mockingbird

Chapter 2
Explanation and Analysis—Scout's Literacy:

In Chapter 2, Scout must deal with a conflict at school. The entire situation is ironic, forcing Scout into a confusing position. She reflects on this issue with her teacher:

I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading.