English - TKAM quotes Flashcards
Boo prejudice quote #1
“Another thing alien to Maycomb’s way: closed doors meant illness and cold weather only.”
Boo prejudice/fear of Boo quote #2
“Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom.”
Tom prejudice quote #1
“Raise a rifle to his shoulder and pull the trigger but watching all that time knowing that the gun was empty.”
Tom prejudice quote #2
“Tom was dead the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.”
Dolphus Raymond quote #1
“They don’t belong anywhere, coloured folks won’t have ‘em because they’re half white; white folks won’t have ‘em, because they’re coloured.”
Dolphus Raymond quote #2
“I try to give ‘em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.”
segregation/Jim Crow quote #1
“You ain’t got no business bringin’ white chillum here - they got their church, we got ours. It is our church, ”
segregation/Jim Crow quote #2
“She was white and she tempted a N**, she did something that in our society is unspeakable: she kissed a Black man.”
gender roles quote #1
“What are you doing in those overalls? You should be in a dress and camisole young lady”
gender roles quote #2
“I felt the starched walls of pink cotton penitentiary closing in on me.”
poverty quote #1
“There was no hurry. For there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with.”
poverty quote #2
“‘Are we poor Atticus?’ Atticus nodded.’ ’we are indeed’ […] ‘are we as poor as the cunninghams’ ‘not exactly’.”
Fear of Boo quote #1
“Jem gave a reasonable description of Boo: […] his hands were bloodstained […] there was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were rotten. His eyes popped, and he drooled.”
progression of SB relationship quote #1
“Dill asked if I would like to have a poke at Boo Radley. I said I didn’t think it would be nice to bother him.”
progression of SB relationship quote #2
“We had given him nothing, and it made me sad.”
