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Scout Finch
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- 1Scout Finch"Scout yonder's been readin' ever since she was born,"
- Jem Finch - 2Scout Finch"Then if he's not dead you've got one, haven't you?"
- Scout Finch - 3Scout Finch"I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."
- Scout Finch - 4Scout Finch"He ain't company, Cal, he's just a Cunningham -"
- Scout Finch - 5Scout Finch"The prospect of spending nine months refraining from reading and writing made me think of running away."
- Scout Finch - 6Scout Finch"I told Atticus I didn't feel well and didn't think I'd go back to school anymore if that was alright with him."
- Scout Finch - 7Scout Finch"It was a thousand colours in a parched landscape;"
- Scout Finch - 8Scout Finch"Calpurnia says that's nigger-talk."
- Scout Finch - 9Scout Finch"Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that's why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with."
"All right, you just keep it up then,"
- Scout Finch - 10Scout Finch"I beat him up twice but it did no good,"
- Scout Finch - 11Scout Finch"On pain of being called a girl,"
- Scout Finch - 12Scout Finch"...feeling it my duty to defend my parent."
- Scout Finch - 13Scout Finch"... I declare to the Lord you're gettin' more like a girl every day!"
"With that, I had no option but to join them."
- Scout Finch - 14Scout Finch"I tried to climb into Jem's skin and walk around in it:"
- Scout Finch - 15Scout Finch"The world's endin', Atticus! Please do something -!"
- Scout Finch - 16Scout Finch"That Tom Swift book, it ain't mine, it's Dill's..."
- Scout Finch - 17Scout Finch"Atticus had promised me he would wear me out if he ever heard of me fighting any more; I was far too old and too big for such childish things, and the sooner I learned to old it in, the better off everybody would be. I soon forgot."
- Scout Finch - 18Scout Finch"Well if you don't want me to grow up talkin' that way, why do you send me to school?"
- Scout Finch - 19Scout Finch"I decided that she had been swapped at birth,"
- Scout Finch - 20Scout Finch"You're more like Atticus than your mother,"
- Uncle Jack - 21Scout Finch"You want to grow up to be a lady don't you?"
"I said not particularly."
- Scout Finch - 22Scout Finch"Boys don't cook." I giggled at the thought of Jem in an apron."
- Scout Finch - 23Scout Finch"When stalking one's prey, it is best to take one's time."
- Scout Finch - 24Scout Finch"I'll never speak to you again as long as I live! I hate you an' despise you an' hope you die tomorrow!"
- Scout Finch - 25Scout Finch"Promise you wont tell Atticus about this. He - he asked me one time not to let anything I heard about him make me mad, an' I'd rather him think we were fightin' about somethin' else instead. Please promise..."
- Scout Finch - 26Scout Finch"Why, he couldn't get along a day without me. Even Calpurnia couldn't get along unless I was there. They needed me."
- Scout Finch - 27Scout Finch"There was a man Dill had heard of who had a boat that he rowed across to a foggy island where all these babies were; you could order one- "That's a lie. Aunty said God drops em' down the chimney."
- Scout Finch - 28Scout Finch"...much pleading on behalf of the defendant..."
- Scout Finch - 29Scout Finch"In Maycomb, grown men stood outside in the front yard for only two reasons: death and politics. I wondered who had died."
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- English Literature Flashcards on Scout Finch, created by Carla Hewitt on 07/05/2015.
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