To Kill a Mockingbird exam quotation list (30 quotations) Flashcards
Tom Robinson x4
1) ‘Looks like she didn’t have nobody to help her. I felt right sorry for her.’
2) ‘No suh, I’s scared I’d be in court, just like I am now.’
3) ‘No suh, scared I’d hafta face up to what I didn’t do.’
4) There is only the here and now. The past is gone, forgotten.
Atticus Finch (skin)
‘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.’
Atticus Finch (conscience)
‘before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.’
Atticus Finch (courage)
‘I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.’
Atticus Finch (mob)
‘A mob’s always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was still a man.’
Atticus Finch (licked years ago)
‘Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.’
Atticus Finch (head high)
‘you just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don’t let ‘em get your goat. Try fighting with you head for a change’
Jem Finch (Negro blood)
‘around here once you have a drop of Negro blood, that makes you all black.’
Jem Finch (folks)
‘If there’s just one kind of folks, why can’t they get along with each other? If they’re all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other?’
Jem Finch (Boo Radley)
‘Scout, I think I’m beginning to understand something. I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up in the house all this time… it’s because he wants to stay inside.
Jem Finch (conviction)
‘Don’t see how any jury could convict on what we heard.
Jem Finch (family)
‘Atticus says you can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family, an’ they’re still kind to you no matter whether you acknowledge ‘em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t.’
Jem Finch (lawyer)
‘I thought I wanted to be a lawyer but I ain’t so sure now!’
Scout Finch (tomboy)
‘I don’t see why I have to wear a darn old dress’
Scout Finch (entailment)
‘Hey Mr. Cunningham. How’s your entailment getting along?’
Scout Finch (question)
‘If you shouldn’t be defending him, then why are you doing it?’
Scout Finch (bravery)
‘It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.’
Scout Finch (folks)
‘I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
Scout Finch (slaughter)
‘Mr Underwood…likened Tom’s death to the senseless slaughter of songbirds by hunters and children’
Scout Finch (perspective)
‘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 Finch (algebra)
‘As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn’t much else left for us to learn, except possibly algebra’
Miss Maudie (Roman carnival)
‘watching a poor devil on trial for his life. Look at all those folks, it’s like a Roman carnival.’
Miss Maudie (baby steps)
‘Atticus Finch won’t win, he can’t win, but he’s the only man in these parts who can keep a jury out so long in a case like that. And I thought to myself, well, we’re making a step—it’s just a baby- step, but it’s a step.’
Dolphus Raymond (hell)
‘the hell white people give colored folks, without ever stopping to think that they’re people too’
Calpurnia (Bob Ewell)
‘There goes the meanest man God ever blew breath into.’
Calpurnia (Walter Cunningham)
‘Yo’ folks might be better’n the Cunninghams but it doesn’t count for nothin’ the way you’re disgracin’ ’em.’
Aunt Alexandra (lady)
‘After all, if Aunty could be a lady at a time like this, so could I.
Aunt Alexandra (campaign)
‘This was a part of her campaign to teach me how to be a lady.’
