QUOTES Flashcards
Scout- Opening creating questions
“We sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. I maintain the Ewells started it all,”
Scout- Opening setting the scene
“There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with”
Attitus- Understanding people
“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.”
Scout- Prejudice against Walter
“He ain’t company, Cal, he’s just a Cunningham-“
Miss Maudie- What is a Mockingbird
“Mockingbird’s don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy… but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird”
Attitcus- defeat but keep trying, see it through
“You know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what”
Scout and Jem-Rolypoly
“Why couldn’t I mash him?” “because they don’t bother you”
Scout- fairness and bias
“Well in the first place you never stopped to gimme a chance to tell you my side of it- you just lit right into me”
Walter Cunnigham- Lynch mob
“I’ll tell him you said hey, little lady,”
Scout- why defend him?
“If you shouldn’t be defending him, then why are you doing it?”
Scout- Ending seeing Boo’s point of view
“Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough”
Scout and Atticus- Ending
“Atticus, he was real nice…”
“Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them”
Scout- Boo Radley killed Bob Ewell
“Well, it’d be sort of like shootin’ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?”
Atticus- unspeakable realtionship
“She did something unspeakable in our society- she kissed a black man”
Scout- Atticus’s case was always guilty
“In the secret courts of men’s hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed”
