My name is Leon quotes

Question 1

Name 2 quotes for chapter 1

Answer 1

‘You’re nice and big for your age. A right little man.’
‘Can I do it in a minute? Sorry, I was just going to the smoking room.’
‘Just me and you and him. Always.’

Question 2

Name 2 quotes for chapter 2

Answer 2

• ‘I’m the one in charge of my baby when mum’s not there.’
• ‘Carol says Leon can’t go to school because it’s too wet and rainy.’
• ‘Carol starts crying. She’s always crying these days.’
• ‘It’s been five days since he went to school.

Question 3

Name 2 quotes for chapter 3

Answer 3

• ‘Leon has begun to notice the things that make his mum cry: when Jake makes a lot of noise;
  when she hasn’t got any money; when she comes back from the phone box […]’
• ‘I knew someone was in and I shouted through the letter box that I just wanted to give him a
  message. I kept on knocking and then he answered the door. Tony did. Just like that.’

Question 4

Name 2 quotes for chapter 4

Answer 4

• ‘Leon imagines its little dog heart beating underneath and his dad’s hands grabbing Samson’s
  front paws and tearing them apart until the dog howls.’
• ‘If he has got a gun and he tries to shoot, Leon will kick the door off the hinges and attack him
  before he can pull the trigger.’

Question 5

Name 2 quotes for chapter 5

Answer 5

• ‘As soon as the summer holidays start, things get jangled up at home.’
• ‘She goes to bed all the time so Leon has to do everything.’
• ‘He realizes that the whole room smells like Jake’s nappy and that his mum has wet the bed
  again. He opens the window but only a little crack in case Carol gets cold.’

Question 6

Name 2 quotes for chapter 7

Answer 6

And Leon was dead as well and he looked down on his khaki green uniform and his sweaty
face from the jungle heat and at the trail of sticky blood that ran out of the corner of his
mouth and he stepped over himself and got out of bed.

Question 7

Name 2 quotes for chapter 9

Answer 7

• That’s when Leon’s mum used to get annoyed with him because he never came soon and he
  never came back when he said he would. And now she’s doing the same thing.
• Someone is coming. Leon knows who it is. The air is different.

Question 8

Name 2 quotes for chapter 20

Answer 8

Listen, Castro, you don’t have the monopoly on anger, on a sense of injustice.’ He holds a
finger in the air. ‘We have to organize. Black people won’t get anywhere unless and until we
form ourselves into a body which society recognizes, that can lobby the authorities and seek
redress.’
* If we come together to form something, it’s an army. Not a – what you call it – lobby group.
You think white people going to listen to monkeys? Monkeys is what they call we.’