s Maudie's house, a house she hated. Yet, she stands out front after the fire and stares at what was left of the house, not wanting to speak. After this, she stays with Miss Stephanie, and between them there is always a clash of tolerance on one side and bigotry on the other. Miss Maudie has her own way of thinking and doing things, and she has achieved a position in town because of it. Atticus respects her, and she respects him in return. Both tolerate the Radleys, and indeed they do more--they understand them. Scout learns a lot in these chapters and comes to have a more tolerant disposition herself once she accepts the fact that Boo Radley is not the terror he has been made out to be.
Scout encounters another form of bigotry in school when she hears her father referred to as a "nigger-lover," and she asks him what this means. He tells her about the Robinson case and the defendant he is now working for, a black man accused of rape. The Robinson story represents a shift in direction and tone, though later the story of Robi
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