In my copy, the page is 33. It's in chapter 3.
Scout has just completed her first day of school, in which she is told to tell Atticus to stop teaching her to read and how to write. She's seen Burris Ewell cuss out the young schoolteacher and leave her in tears, and attacked Walter Cunningham for not having money for lunch--which subsequently, in Scout's view, got her into trouble because she tried to explain...
In my copy, the page is 33. It's in chapter 3.
Scout has just completed her first day of school, in which she is told to tell Atticus to stop teaching her to read and how to write. She's seen Burris Ewell cuss out the young schoolteacher and leave her in tears, and attacked Walter Cunningham for not having money for lunch--which subsequently, in Scout's view, got her into trouble because she tried to explain to Miss Caroline that she was shaming Walter without knowing it. She went home dejected and determined to never go to school again, and when Atticus finally asks what the problem is--because he asks her if she wants to read and Miss Caroline has told her to stop--she goes to the front porch. She explains what happened, and he says, "First of all, if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--...until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
He's explaining how both she and Miss Caroline learned things today, and how life is a learning experience. You can't just write people off when they don't understand you--or you, them. You have to try to see things from their point of view.
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