To Kill A Mockingbird Flashcards

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Prejudice about boo

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Any steathy crimes committed in Maycomb were of his work

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How scout and Jem see atticus

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Jem and I found our father satisfactory

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Most important quote about empathy

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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

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Jem about atticus whipping

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Atticus ain’t ever whipped me since I can remember. And I wanta keep it that way

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Atticus principals about doing the right thing

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I couldn’t even tell you or Jem not to do something again

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We were licked 100 years

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We were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win

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Why u can’t kill a mockingbird

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It’s a sin to kill a Mockingbird

Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy

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Atticus about living with his decision

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Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself

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Real courage

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It’s when you’ve been licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it though no matter what

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Aunt Alexandra fitting into Maycomb

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Aunt Alexandra fitted into the world of Maycomb like a hand into a glove

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Scout about jems superiority

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His maddening superiority was unbearable these days

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When scout learned to step into someone else’s shoes

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Just standing on the radleys front porch was enough

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Jem standing up to atticus

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Son I said go home

Jem shook his head

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Atticus about the scene with the lynch mob

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You children last night made Walter Cunningham stand in my shoes for a minute

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Maycombs black racism even saying Bob is better than the negroes because of his skin

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All the little man on the witness stand had that made him any better than his nearest neighbours was that, if scrubbed with lye soap in very hot water, his skin would be white

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Atticus speech in the court room

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But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal- there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal to a Rockerfeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution gentlemen, is a court.

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How corrupt the courts are

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I ain’t ever seen a jury decide in favour of a coloured man over a white man

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Maycomb classes

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There’s the ordinary kind like us and the neighbours, there’s the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods, the kind like the Ewells down at the dump, and the negroes

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Scouts perception of maycombs classes

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Naw, Jem, I think there’s just one kind of folk. Folks.

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Tom was a dead man

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Tom was a dead man the minute mayella Ewell opened her mouth

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Scout learning the title of the book

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Well, it’d be sort of like shootin ‘ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?

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Themes

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Prejudice, racism, understanding

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Racial

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Put boo in jail with negroes
Aunt Alexandra towards calpernia
Miss dubose about atticus defending a negro

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Class

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Cunninghams
Negroes
Ewells

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Gender

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Aunt Alexandra towards scout

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Understanding

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Scout from atticus and school

Jem and the court case

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Important scenes for atticus

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Shooting the dog
Lynch mob
Court case
Mr Ewells spit in his face

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Important scenes for scout

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School
Finding the gifts in the tree
Atticus shooting the dog
Lynch mob
Court case 
Meeting boo