TKM Quotes Flashcards
Boo radley scout and Jem before
“Judging from his tracks”
“His eyes popped”
“He was always drooling”
“He dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that’s why his hands were bloodstained”
Boo radley scout sees him as real
“His lips parted into a timid smile, and our neighbor’s image blurred with my sudden tears.”
Boo radley on reflection
Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.
Scout and Jem no longer scared of boo
“Boo radley was the least of our fears”
The radley family church
“They did not go to church”
“It was a predilection of unforgivable”
Atticus empathy
“First of all, if you learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. 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.”
Jem perspective from scout
- Jem was standing in a corner of the room, looking like the traitor he was. “Dill, I had to tell him,” he said. “You can’t run three hundred miles off without your mother knowin’.”
- shows how scout is still young- she thinks he is a traitor
Jem emotion
How could they do it, how could they?” “I don’t know, but they did it. They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again and when they do it—seems that only children weep.”
Masculinity Jem
- Scout, I’m tellin’ you for the last time, shut your trap or go home – I declare to the Lord you’re gettin’ more like a girl every day!
- be a gentleman son
Jem courage
- this can be shown in his changing ideas of mrs dubose
- Did she die free?” asked Jem
Scout as a narrator
- Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it
- But I never figured out how Atticus knew I was listening, and it was not until many years later that I realized he wanted me to hear every word he said.
Scout gender
- I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with
- I began to think there may be some skill involved with being a girl after all
Innocence scout
The world’s endin’, Atticus! Please do something – !” I dragged him to the window and pointed. “No, it’s not,” he said. “It’s snowing.”
Bob Ewell status over Tom scout perspective
“All the little man on the witness stand had that made him any better than his nearest neighbors was, that if scrubbed with lye soap in very hot water, his skin was white.”
The ewells poverty teh Great Depression
“Every town the size of Maycomb had families like the Ewells. No economic fluctuations changed their status—people like the Ewells lived as guests of the county in prosperity as well as in the depths of a depression. No truant officers could keep their numerous offspring in school; no public health officer could free them from congenital defects, various worms, and the diseases indigenous to filthy surroundings.”
