Innocence/Naivety Flashcards
Disease
‘I hope and pray I can get Jem and Scout through it without bitterness, and most of all, without catching Maycomb’s usual disease.’
Most Folks
‘Atticus, you must be wrong…Well, most folks seem to think that they’re right and you’re wrong…’
Friendly Overture
‘My friendly overture had fallen flat…What’s the matter?’
Wild Animals
‘So it took an eight-year-old child to bring ‘em to their senses, didn’t it? That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they’re still human… you children last night made Walter Cunningham stand in my shoes for a minute.’
Defend
‘The court appointed Atticus to defend him. Atticus aimed to defend him. That’s what they didn’t like about it. It was confusing.’
Lonelier
‘She was even lonelier than Boo Radley’
Sick and Cry
‘Because you’re children and you can understand it…Things haven’t caught up with that one’s instinct yet. Let him get a little older, and he won’t get sick and cry. Maybe things’ll strike him as being - not quite right, say, but he won’t cry, not when he gets a few years on him.’
Run-of-the-mill
‘Miss Jean Louise, you don’t know your pa’s a not a run-of-the-mill man, it’ll take a few years for that to sink in - you haven’t seen enough of the world yet.’
Reasoning Process
‘So far nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process.’
Voice of a Child
‘Will you take me home?’ He almost whispered it, in the voice of a child afraid of the dark.’