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- 1Aunt Alexandra: 1st thing she said‘Put my bag in the front bedroom, Calpurnia.’ was the first thing Aunt Alexandra said. ‘Jean louise, stop scratching your head.’ was the second thing she said.
- 2Aunt Alexandra: feminine influenceAunt Alexandra says to Scout: it would be best for you to have some feminine influence
- 3Aunt Alexandra: description ofAunt Alexandra was the last of her kind; she had riverboat, bording school manners; let any moral come along and she would uphold it; she was born in the objective case; she was an incurable gossip given the slightest chance, she would exercise her royal prerogative: she would arrange, advise, caution, warn.
- 4Aunt Alexandra: asked Atticus to talk to ScoutYour aunt has asked me to try and impress upon you … that you are the product of several generations’ gentle breeding. (Atticus)
- 5Aunt Alexandra: choose our friendsPerhaps this was why she had come to live with us – to help us choose our friends.
- 6Aunt Alexandra: Walter(re Walter Cunningham) He – is – trash
- 7Aunt Alexandra: family backgroundAtticus said one time the reason Aunty’s so hipped on the family is because all we’ve got’s background and not a dime to our names (Jem)
- 8Aunt Alexandra: could be a ladyif Aunty could be a lady at a time like this, so could I.
- 9Aunt Alexandra: worry after attackAunt Alexandra’s fingers trembled as she unwound the fabric and wire from around me. ‘Are you alright darling?’ she asked me over and over as she worked me free.
- 10Calpurnia: teachingsIn Calpurnia’s teaching, there was no sentimentality: I seldom pleased her and she seldom rewarded me.
- 11Calpurnia: respect companyanybody sets foot in this house’s yo company, and don’t let me catch you remarking on their ways
- 12Calpurnia: my childrenI don’t want anyone sayin I don’t look after my children
- 13Calpurnia: not leavingCalpurnia’s not leaving this house until she wants to
- 14Calpurnia: skill of girlsand by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved with being a girl
- 15nothing to fearwe have nothing to fear but fear itself
- 16Jem: bug mashing & femininity"why couldn't I mash him?" I asked
"Because they don't bother you," Jem was the one who was getting more like a girl every day, not I - 17Jem: new valuesovernight it seemed, Jem has adopted a new set of values
- 18Aunt Alexandra: cares about / understands AtticusHe doesn't show it much, but it tears hims to pieces
- 19Aunt Alexandra: overallsAunty brought over my overalls
temporarily doesn't care about femininity- just wants her to be comfortable and safe - 20Calpurnia: important, valuedWe couldn't operate a single day without Cal
- 21Calpurnia: understanding of care in beginningCalpurnia bent down and kissed me- I ran along wondering what had came over her.
- 22Calpurnia: Trust and confideI burst into tears and fled to Calpurnia
- 23Jem: aspires to AtticusJem's ears reddened from Atticus's compliment
- 24Atticus: calm and thoughtful (Miss Maudie's chair)I saw Atticus carrying Miss Maudie's heavy oak rocking-chair and thought it sensible of him to save what she valued most
- 25Scout: respect Atticus (called a coward- refrain from fighting)I could take being called a coward for him
- 26Black churchNegroes worshiped in it on Sundays and white men gambled in it on weekdays
- 27Scout: DressI could feel the pink cotton penitentiary closing in on me
- 28Dolphus Raymond: drop of bloodAround here you have one drop of Negro blood, that makes you all bad
- 29Atticus: calming seaswith his infinite capacity for calming turbulent seas, he could make a rape case as dry as a sermon
- 30Bob Ewell: Ego/confidence/Bantam cockA little Bantam cock of a man rose and strutted to the stand
- 31Mayella: catlike a steady-eyed cat with a twitchy tail
- 32Mayella: manipulative (cowards)if you fine fancy gentlemen don't wanta do nothin' about it then you're all yellow stinkin' cowards
- 33Tom Robinson: Mayella mistakenI don't say she's lyin', Mr Gilmer, I say she's mistaken in her mind
- 34Dolphus Raymond: give a reasonI try to give 'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch on to a reason
Folks can say Dolphus Raymond's in the clutches of whiskey- that's why he won't change his ways - 35Atticus: evil assumptionThe evil assumption- that all Negroes lie, that all Negroes are immoral beings.
In our courts all men are created equal - 36Tom Robinson: dead manTom was a dead man the minute Mayella opened her mouth and screamed
- 37Scout: Hitlerhow can you hate Hitler so bad an' then turn around and be ugly about folks right at home?
- 38Miss Maudie: other peopleshe was not at all interested in other people's private lives
- 39Mrs Dubose: prejudice towardsIt was rumored that she kept a C.S.A pistol
- 40Atticus: view of the EwellsAtticus said the Ewells had been the disgrace of Maycomb for three generations. None of them had done an honest days work
- 41Maycomb: streaksEverybody in Maycomb, it seemed, had a Streak: a Drinking Streak, a Gambling Streak, a Mean Streak, a Funny Streak.
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- A lot of quotes: Aunt Alexandra, Calpurnia, Jem, Atticus, Tom, Bob, Mayella, Maycomb
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