TKAM context and Q Flashcards
When was to kill a Mockingbird written
- 1960: Time of the civil rights movement
When is to kill a mockingbird set
- 1930s: Great depression, when poverty worsened the living conditions for those at the bottom of the social hierarchy
What would Harper Lee have witnessed
She would have witnessed prejudice and legal injustices such as the Scottsboro trial - where innocent black men were persecuted
When was the abolition of slavery
- 1865: after the south lost the Civil War
- Society was highly segregated
What to say to include context
This reflects the historical/social context in which the novel set/written in
Where did Harper Lee grow up and study
Alabama
She studied law at Montgomery University
What is the American dream
Thomas Jefferson believed all American citizens should be equal
Quote About understanding people
“You never really understand person… Until you climb into his skin and walk around in it”
Childhood innocence quotes
“Police force of children”
“Only children weep”
Hitler quote
“How can you hate Hitler so bad and then turn around and be ugly about folks right at home? “
Quotes about things changing
“Baby steps”
“Shadow of the beginning“
Quotes describing Boo
“Malevolent phantom“
“Dined on raw squirrels“
“Blood stained hands“
“What teeth he had were yellow and rotten“
Hands were “warm”
“Nice”
“Most people are Scout”
“He gave us…our lives”
Quotes on Atticus (bad)
“feeble“ “Nearly fifty” “Satisfactory” “Run wild” “treated us with courteous detachment”
Quotes on Atticus (good)
“One shot finch” “Deadest shot” “Gentleman” “daddy” “ I couldn’t go to church and worship God if I didn’t help that man”
Masculine courage
“ his belt had a row bullet holes sticking in it”
Moral courage
“courage is when you are licked before you begin, but you begin anyway”
Mrs Dubose quotes
“Bravest woman”
“Meanest woman”
The court case quotes
“in the secret courts of men’s hearts, Atticus has no case”
Quotes on Dill
“Beautiful things floating about in his dreamy head”
“Felt sick”
“stray dog”
“Passed around from relative to relative”
“I’m going to be a new kind of clown. I’m going to stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at all the folks”
Quotes on Aunt Alexandra
“Is analogous to Mount Everest — cold and there”
“Sharp nose and chin”
“Fits like a glove”
She changes:
“Brother”
“if auntie could be a lady at a time like this so could I”
Quote for Miss Maudie Atkinson
“There is more room for my azaleas”
she does not want to watch a “poor devil“ fight for his life
“The Bible in the hands of one man is more dangerous than a bottle of whiskey in the hand of another”
Calpurnia quotes
“Angular” “Hand as wide as a bed slat” “Couldn’t operate a day without her” “She knows what she means to this family” “Baby”
Mrs dubose quotes
“Meanest women who ever lived”
“Bravest person”
“Venomous spite”
Dolphus Raymond
“He’s got a coloured women and all kinds of mixed chillun”
“Sits with the coloured folks”
