Mockingbirds

Question 1

Consider-3, after schl and Walter

Answer 1

‘You 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.’

Question 2

Mockingbird-sin

Answer 2

‘they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.’

Question 3

Advantage

Answer 3

‘Tom Robinson was probably the only person who was ever decent to her. But she said he took advantage of her, and when she stood up she looked at him as if he were dirt beneath her feet.’

Question 4

Evidence of Offence

Answer 4

‘She did something every child has done - she tried to put the evidence of her offence away from her…What was the evidence of her offence? Tom Robinson, a human being.’

Question 5

Songbirds

Answer 5

‘He likened Tom’s death to the senseless slaughter of songbirds by hunters and children’

Question 6

Shy Ways

Answer 6

‘taking the one man who’s done you and this town a great service an’ draggin’ him with his shy ways into the lime-light - to me, that’s a sin.

Question 7

Shooting

Answer 7

‘Well, it’d be sort of like shootin’ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?