The correct answer is "the rules vs. the ways of Maycomb". Scout's first days at school is a theme included in the first chapters of the book "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. This theme is focused in the conflict of the rules vs. the ways of Maycomb because it starts when Miss Caroline gave one quarter to Walter Cunningham Jr. without knowing the ways of Maycomb. Miss Caroline could not expected that the boy had not money to pay her back.
