To Kill a Mockingbird Flashcards
“About the simple hell people give other people. Cry about the hell white people give coloured folks, without even stopping to think that they’re people, too”
Dolphus Raymond outside courthouse when Dill was crying. Comment about race, prejudice, inhumanity to others.
“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”
Chapter 3. Atticus Finch to Scout when after she’s moaned about her teacher. The solution. How we should treat other people, see things from their point of view.
“In our courts when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s, the white man always wins. They’re ugly but those are the facts of life.”
Chapter 23. Atticus talking to Jem.
“White people wouldn’t have anything to do with her because she lived among pigs: Negroes wouldn’t have anything to do with her because she was white.”
Chapter 19. Scout talking to us about Mayella Ewell Social Class.
“Things haven’t caught up with that one’s instinct yet. Let him get a little older, and he won’t get sick and cry.”
Chapter 20. Scout about Dill. Comment about social class in terms of race/racism. Children aren’t prejudice.
Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started, is no reason for us not to try and win.”
Chapter 9. Atticus Finch talking to Uncle Jack. Courage and Bravery.
“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun”
Atticus Finch to Jem about Mrs Dubose courage theme.
“When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.”
Chapter 1. Jean Louise Finch. The very start of the novel to use the plot is circular.
“Atticus Finch is the same in his house as he is on the public streets”
Miss Maudie Atkinson to children. Shows Atticus behaviour.
“Remember, it’s a sin To Kill a Mockingbird”
Chapter 10. Miss Maudie to Jem. When Jem got a rifle.
“…. all negroes lie, that all negroes are basically immoral beings, that all negro men are not to be trusted around our women.”
Atticus in closing speech comment of society/race.
“The thing about it is, our kind of folks don’t like the Cunninghams, the Cunninghams don’t like the Ewells, and the Ewells hate and despise the coloured folks”
Chapter 23. Jem to Scout. The social class system.
“The jury couldn’t possibly be expected to take Tom Robinson’s word against the Ewells”
Chapter 9. Atticus to Uncle Jack. Racism
Mayella Ewell must have been the loneliest person in the world. She was even lonelier than Boo Radley who had not been out of the house for 25 years”
Chapter 19. Scout to the reader. Shows Mayella’s character. Shows how Bob treats Mayella.
