To Kill A Mockingbird Quotes Flashcards
Scout is fearless
“I split my knuckle to the bone on his front teeth”
Scout is inquisitive
“Do you think Boo Radley’s still alive?”
Scout is innocent
“There wasn’t much else left for us to learn, except possibly algebra”
Scout learns Atticus’ lessons and is able to empathise with Boo Radley at the end of the novel
“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.”
Atticus is courageous
“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.”
The folk in Maycomb are racist and unfair
“Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.”
Scout finally learns to see past people’s prejudice and is able to see Boo as he is
“Atticus he was real nice”
Atticus is empathetic towards others and teaches his children to be empathetic as well
“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 is respectful
“I do my best to love everybody”
Atticus is patient
“Infinite capacity for calming turbulent seas”
Atticus is fair
“We trust him to do right”
Atticus is not hypocritical and doesn’t have double standards
“Atticus Finch is the same in the house as he is on the public streets”
Atticus wants to be a good role model to the children and the folk in Maycomb
He says that if he didn’t try his best to defend Tom Robinson then he wouldn’t be able to “hold up his head in town”
Atticus misjudges Bob Ewell’s threats, which almost gets his children killed
“What on earth could Bob Ewell do to me, sister?”
Jem is trying to be responsible by telling Atticus that Dill had run away from home and came to hide in their house
Jem “broke the remaining code of our childhood”
Jem is brave
“In all his life, Jem had never declined a dare.”
Jem is sensitive
“How could they do it, how could they?”
Jem is calm
“He had a natural tranquil disposition”
Atticus tries to answer question truthfully and treats his children as equals
“Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles ‘em”
Aunt Alexandra is proud of her family background
“The longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer [the family] it was”
Scout is naive and believes in the best of people and equality
“I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.”
Aunt Alexandra has high social standards and is prejudiced towards the other families in Maycomb. She thinks the Finches are the best family.
“You can scrub Walter Cunningham till he shines, you can put him in shoes and a new suit, but he’ll never be like Jem. Finch women aren’t interested in that sort of people”
Aunt Alexandra is dignified
“If Aunty could be a lady at a time like this, so could I”
Uncle Jack doesn’t understand children as well as Atticus
“You don’t understand children much”
