Winter arrives in Maycomb. Mr Avery said bad children or disobedient children cause the weather to change or bring bad weather. It is ironic because the children’s initial reaction is fear and curiosity. Scout says, “jem and I were burdened with the guilt of contributing to the aberrations of nature,thereby causing unhappiness to our neighbors and discomfort to ourselves.”
Failure allows you to learn that making mistakes is contrary for you to learn how to avoid making mistakes like that again. You can't avoid something if you don't even know where it's coming from, so you need to make the mistake of not avoiding it to know how to avoid it next time.