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To Kill A Mockingbird Main Quotes
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- 1Atticus 1> ‘You can 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’
> ‘if he wanted to stay inside his own house he had the right’
> ‘Atticus ain’t ever whipped me’
> ‘Checked on us’ while sleeping - 2Atticus 2> ‘Atticus carrying Miss Maudie’s heavy oak rocking chair’ – fire
> ‘Don’t say nigger Scout, that’s common’
> ‘just because we were licked a hundred years before we started, is no reason for us not to try and win’
> ‘Atticus doesn’t ever just listen to Jem’s side of it, he hears mine too’ - 3Atticus 3> ‘Bad language is a stage all children go through and it dies with time’
> ‘he was nearly fifty’ / ‘much older'
> ‘Did not play poker or fish or drink or smoke’
> ‘Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird’
> ‘I thought my Father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived’ - 4Atticus 4> ‘they’re entitled to full respect on their opinions’
> 'then you'll do it for a month'
> ‘I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand’
> Mr C - ‘a good man, he just has his blind spots along with the rest of us’
> ‘that white man is trash’ - whenever a white man does that to a black man
> 'it's not okay to hate anybody'
> 'before Jem looks at anyone else, he looks at me and I've tried to live so I can look squarely back at him'
> 'most people are (nice), when you finally see them' - 5Scout 1> ‘I’ll knock you bow-legged’ – Tom-boy
> ‘Marry him’
> ‘duty to defend my parent’
> ‘As Atticus had once advised me to do, I tried to climb into Jem’s skin’
> 'what's rape?'
> ‘how do you know we ain’t negroes?’ - 6Scout 2> 'I thought Jem was counting him chickens'
> ‘I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.’
> ‘If Aunty could be a lady at a time like this, so could I’
> ‘why couldn’t I mash him’ - 7Scout 3> 'hey boo!'
> 'well it'd be sort of like shooting a mockingbird' - 8Jem 1> ‘Dill had seen Dracula, a revelation that moved Jem to eye him with the beginning of respect’
> ‘She follows his example a good bit now’ – Jem is a role model for Scout
> Jem was ‘difficult to live with, inconsistent, moody’ - 9Jem 2> ‘His maddening superiority was unbearable these days’ - Jem
> 'we've got him'
> 'we've won, haven't we?'
> ‘I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up’ - 10Jem and Scout Relationship 1> Jem to Scout – ‘if I got killed, what’d become of you?’
> ‘I was to leave him alone’ at school
> ‘Jem comforted me’
> ‘Sometimes you act so much like a girl'
> ‘Don’t cry now, don’t you worry’
> ‘Hot biscuit-and-butter which he tore in half and shared with me’ - 11Jem and Scout Relationship 2> 'look at the ground and you won't fall'
> 'when Jem came to fetch me he was sympathetic' - 12Boo Radley> ‘inhabited by an unknown entity’
> ‘Malevolent phantom’
> Azaleas had frozen because ‘he had breathed on them’
>Negro would not ‘pass the Radley Place at night’
> ‘Radley pecans would kill you’
> ‘another thing alien to Maycomb’s ways’
> 'dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch’
> ‘teeth he had were yellow and rotten’ - 13Bob Ewell> Bob Ewell - ‘little bantam cock of a man’
> ‘lived behind the town, garbage dump’
> ‘I can use one hand as good as the other’ - stupid - 14Mayella Ewell + other Ewell's> ‘the filthiest human I had ever seen’
> ‘brilliant red geraniums’ - affection
> ‘looked as if she tried to keep clean’
> ‘got enough sense to get the Judge sorry for her’
> 'took offence to routine courtesy'
> ‘Mayella Ewell must have been the loneliest person in the world’ - 15Mrs Dubose> 'plain hell'
> ‘the meanest old woman who ever lived’
> ‘subjected to ruthless interrogation’
> ‘your Father’s no better than the niggers and trash he works for’
> ‘bravest person I ever knew’ – Atticus - 16Miss Maudie and Miss Stephanie Crawford> SC: ‘received most of his information’
> SC: ‘saw him looking straight through the window at her’
> SC : ‘had more to say about the Radley’s than anybody in Maycomb’
> SC: knew 'so much about the case she might as well be called to testify’
> MM challenges gossip on Boo - 'always spoke nicely to me'
> MM - ‘its just a baby step, but it’s a step’
> SC: ‘English Channel of gossip’ - 17Relevance of title> Tom’s death - ‘a senseless slaughter of songbirds’
- 18Prejudice> ‘Don’t matter who they are’
> ‘don’t let me catch you remarkin’ on their ways like you was so high and mighty’
> ‘it don’t count for nothin’ the way you’re disgracin’ ‘em’
> MM: ‘wouldn’t you stay in the house if you didn’t want to come out?’
> ‘Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird’
> ‘white people wouldn’t have anything to do with her because she lived among pigs’
> Atticus - ‘Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal’ - 19Racism> Cecil Jacobs – ‘that nigger oughta hang from the water tank’
> ‘The only thing we’ve got is a black man’s word against the Ewell’s’
> Separate churches
> Mixed child - ‘coloured folks won’t have ‘em because they’re half white; white folks won’t have ‘em because they’re coloured’
> ‘you felt sorry for her?’
> ‘I’m not much of a drinker but they could never understand that I live like I do’ - Dolphus Raymond
> Reverend - ‘I ain’t ever seen any jury decide in favour of a coloured man over a white man
> ‘Tom was a head man the minute Mayella ewell opened her mouth and screamed’ - 20Trial Quotes> 'roman carnival'
> 'gala occasion' - 21The Cunninghams> ‘enormous and confusing tribe’
> ‘Cunningham’s never took anything they can’t pay back’
> Would Mr Cunningham repay us – ‘not in money’
> ‘In the beginning he was rarin’ for an acquittal’ - 22Dill> 'I can read'
> ‘I was miserable without him
> ‘passed around from relative to relative’
> ‘With him, life was routine, without him, life was unbearable’
> ‘They just wasn’t interested in me’ / ‘they didn’t want me with ‘em’
> 'it ain't right' - 23Growing up> ‘A big cake and three little ones’
> ‘As Atticus had once advised me to do, I tried to climb into Jem’s skin’
> ‘remembered what Atticus said’ about fighting
> ‘I committed myself to a policy of cowardice’ – walks away from fight
> ‘a big cake and two little ones’ - 24Aunt Alexandra> ‘fanatical on the subject on my attire’
> ‘put my bag in the front bedroom’
> ‘best for you to have some feminine influence’
> ‘fitted into the world of Maycomb like a hand into a glove but never into the world of Jem and me’
> ‘don’t talk like that in front of them’ - when Atticus mentions Negros
> ‘they’re not our good folks’ / ‘because - he - is - trash’ - Walter Cunningham
> 'Aunty bought me my overalls' - 25Courage> Atticus standing up for Tom in the trial - 'I couldn't go to church and worship if I didn't help that man'
> Atticus standing up to racial prejudice - 'this case should never have come to trial'
> Jem when escaping the Radley yard - 'holds up the wire'
> Mrs Dubose - fighting against morphine addiction
> Boo Radley - comes and rescues Scout - 'suddenly he was jerked backwards'
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- GCSE English Flashcards on To Kill A Mockingbird Main Quotes, created by Emma Payne on 08/04/2015.
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- Emma Payne · Apr 2015
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