Prejudice Flashcards
“I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.”
-Scout says to Jem when they are discussing why different groups do not get along.
-Jem disagrees and believes that people’s differences are the source of their disagreements.
-Jem’s opening is more mature.
-Scout expresses a deeper but more naive understanding.
-This quote communicates an idealised world in which people are able to respect one another despite racial and socio-economic differences.
-Opposite to Macomb.
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—” “Sir?” “—until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”
-Atticus to Scout after Scout’s first day and bad experience with Miss Caroline.
-Discourages her from making judgements especially on the basis of race or class until she has considered their individual perspective.
-Empathy.
-This guides Scout’s effort to imagine other characters’ interpretations of important events such as TR trial.
“Cry about the simple hell people give other people—without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping to think that they’re people, too.”
-Dolphus Raymond to Scout and Dill.
-Says that once they become accustomed to the current world, they will no longer be shocked or upset by the injustices they witness every day.
-Implies that children are morally superior to adults as they have not yet been jaded by unfair world.
“She’s supposed to go around in back”.
-Scout about Calpurnia when she knocks on Radley’s house to warn them of the rabid dog.
-Scout says that as a black woman, Cal’s place is at the back of the house regardless of her importance to the Finch family.
-Such a young girl saying this shows how deeply embedded racism and segregation is embedded into people’s minds.
“Coloured balcony”.
-In courtroom.
-Black people cannot sit on the main floor.
-Segregation.
-Ironically, the children stand on this balcony.
-The children are breaking a social code just like TR when he says he felt sorry for Mayella, a white woman.
“You don’t have to come along, Angel May”.
-Jem to Scout when she says she doesn’t want to venture into the Radley place.
-Shows prejudice she faces for being a girl.
-Jem ridicules Scout constantly for being a girl and implies that she is not as brave as him because of her gender.
“They don’t belong anywhere. Coloured folks won’t have them because they have white and white folks won’t have him because they’re coloured” “in between”.
-Jem says this about the prejudice that mixed people such as Radymond’s family experience.
-Segregation and social codes.
“Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a n***a comes up”.
-Atticus.
-Does not understand the hysteria in Maycomb over black people.
-He is the opposite of these people as he lets a black woman raise his children, he defends TR who is a black man accused of rape by a white woman.
“Scared him pale though. Says if anyone sees a white n***a around, that’s the one”.
-Stephanie Crawford says this about Nathan Radley.
-Nathan assumes that a black man was the one who crept into his place while it was really Jem to get a close look at Boo.
-There is no evidence to support these claims yet the respectable people of Maycomb all jumped to the conclusion that a black man must have been the trespasser.
-Shows casual racism.
“you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash”
-The first quote is spoken by Atticus Finch following his defence of Tom Robinson, expressing his frustration with the prevailing racism.
-In the first quote, Atticus emphasises that good morals are worth more than money:
The fact he likens racist people to trash links to Lee’s presentation of Bob Ewell as living at the dump.
“He ain’t company, Cal, he’s just a Cunningham”
“Hush your mouth! Don’t matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house’s yo’ comp’ny, and don’t you let me catch you remarkin’ on their ways like you was so high and mighty!”
-The first quote is spoken by Scout to Calpurnia after Jem has invited Walter Cunningham over to the Finch household for food.
-The second quote is Calpurnia’s response to Scout.
In these quotes, Calpurnia scolds Scout and reminds her about how she should treat others
Calpurnia suggests that Scout should be ashamed for treating Walter Cunningham differently:
She suggests that Scout should treat everyone with dignity and without prejudice
