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“Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It’s knowing you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.” “You rarely win, but sometimes you do.”
- “I learned nothing from you except how to be suspicious. …
- “She went to him. …
- “She did not stand alone, but what stood behind her, the most potent moral force in her life, was the love of her father. …
- “I just don’t like my world disturbed without some warning.”
“’You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—‘ ‘Sir? ‘ ‘—until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. ‘”
“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.”
Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ʼem, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird. Knowing that Jem and Scout will most likely use their air rifles to shoot at birds rather than tin cans as he’s requested, Atticus admonishes them to avoid killing mockingbirds.
Why, according to Dill, hasn’t Boo Radley ever run away from his terrible home? Boo has nowhere to run. 15.1 What was the “sickening comic aspect” of Atticus’s exchange with the small mob of men?
Because Scout is only six years old when the novel begins, and eight years old when it ends, she has an unusual perspective that plays an important role in the work’s meaning. In some ways, because she is so young, Scout is an unreliable narrator. Her innocence causes her to misunderstand and misinterpret things.
Scout learns many valuable lessons from her father throughout the novel. Atticus tries to teach his children about fairness in a world that rarely seems fair. … This resulted in a major loss of innocence for Scout when she saw firsthand that life isn’t fair and sometimes innocent people can lose.
- “I thought I wanted to be a lawyer but I ain’t so sure now!” …
- “Dill, I had to tell him. …
- “My sister ain’t dirty and I ain’t scared of you.”
The longest quotation about the book’s title appears in Chapter 10, when Scout explains: “‘Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird. ‘ That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it.
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it” (Lee 36).
Scout’s fighting shows her quick temper and lack of self-control, but it also suggests that she’s kind of a simpleton when it comes to moral matters. She wants a quick fix to complicated questions. (To be fair, she is six.)
Many people who live in Maycomb are racists and prejudiced against black people. For example, Tom Robinson is assumed to be guilty of sexually assaulting Mayella Ewell simply because he is a black man and she is a white woman, even when the evidence points to him being innocent.
Atticus defends Tom because he believes in setting an example for Scout, Jem, and others. He builds on this idea later in the same conversation by saying, “Scout, simply by the nature of the work, every lawyer gets at least one case in his lifetime that affects him personally.
What other gifts do the children find? The first thing found in the hollow tree is gum. Other things they find are: two indian head pennies, a ball of twine, two soap sculptures that resemble Jem and Scout, a medal, a pocket watch, and a pocket knife.
A mockingbird is someone innocent and pure of heart like Atticus, Boo Radley, and Tom Robinson. Atticus himself is a mockingbird because sees the best in everyone. … Atticus did not think Bob Ewell would go as low as hurting his very own kin but in the end, Mr. Ewell went after the little Finches to get back at Atticus.
Boo Radley represents the mockingbird in the sorry since he does nothing but good for the community and does not harm anyone or anything. Boo remains an important character that symbolizes the good that exists inside people. Regardless of the pain that Boo went through, he still does many nice things for the kids.
Throughout the book, a number of characters (Jem, Tom Robinson, Dill, Boo Radley, Mr. Raymond) can be identified as mockingbirds—innocents who have been injured or destroyed through contact with evil.
Dill tries to explain to Scout why he did not want to stay with his mother and stepfather. … He was getting too much attention and he never got around to building the boat with his stepfather.
Scout thinks at first that a snake is under her bed.
In what way doe Jem break the one remaining code of childhood? When Jem reveals Dill’s presence to Atticus he has broken the childhood “code” and has become a “tattletale.” This act definitively separates Jem from Scout and Dill.
Where is Scout and Jem’s mother? She died when Scout was two and Jem was six. She ran off with another man when Scout was two and Jem was six. She is recovering from consumption in Europe.
Dill appears to be younger than his actual age. In the beginning of the novel, Dill had a short stature and appeared to be four years of age, when in actuality, wassix years of age.
The protagonist is Jean Louise (“Scout”) Finch, an intelligent though unconventional girl who ages from six to nine years old during the course of the novel. She is raised with her brother, Jeremy Atticus (“Jem”), by their widowed father, Atticus Finch.
In Chapter 12, Scout experiences the “modest double life” Calpurnia lives by going to church with her, and this spurs her on to question Calpurnia about her “command of two languages.” Summarize the reasons Calpurnia gives in response to Scout’s question about why she continues to use different language with other …
Generally the age between 18-21 when adolescents are no longer considered minors and are granted the full rights and responsibilities of an adult, can be said to be the age when innocence is lost.
ARTHUR RADLEY (Boo) is an outsider because he is isolated from the Maycomb society, and does not relate to the average citizen.
“There’s a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep ’em all away from you. That’s never possible.” “How could they do it, how could they?” “I don’t know, but they did it.
Aunt Alexandra calls Atticus her “Brother” which Scout had never heard her do before.
In Mockingbird, Calpurnia is a “tyrannical presence” in the Finch house and a respected partner to Atticus in raising the children, yet she sleeps on a cot in the kitchen when she stays overnight and respectfully calls Jem “Mister Jem” when he reaches adolescence.
He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.
Our father didn’t do anything. … He did not do the things our schoolmates’ fathers did: he never went hunting, he did not play poker or fish or drink or smoke. He sat in the livingroom and read.
Atticus Finch, one of literature’s great father figures, is also one of literature’s great racial heroes. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view,” Atticus tells Scout in Chapter 3, “until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”
This words are said by Miss Maudie to Scout at Chapter 5 Page 46 of the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee. Miss Maudie tells the girl the story of Arthur Radley explaining who he doesn’t want to leave his house anymore. She says that Mr.
Direct quotations involve incorporating another person’s exact words into your own writing. Quotation marks always come in pairs. Do not open a quotation and fail to close it at the end of the quoted material. … If a direct quotation is interrupted mid-sentence, do not capitalize the second part of the quotation.
Is it an easy thing for Scout to learn? Chapter 3. Atticus says that you never really understand a person “until you climb into his skin and walk around in it”.
Jeremy Atticus “Jem” Finch is something of a typical American boy, refusing to back down from dares and fantasizing about playing football. Four years older than Scout, he gradually separates himself from her games, but he remains her close companion and protector throughout the novel.
When she turns on the light, there is nothing there. She knocks on Jem’s adjoining door to ask him about it, and he goes to get a broom in case it’s a snake. Instead, it turns out to be Dill, whom they find hiding under the bed. Dill has run away from his parents; he is starving and tired.
Calpurnia is the Finch’s black housekeeper and nanny who has been with them since Jem was born. She cooks, cleans, sews, irons and does all the other household chores, but she also disciplines the children. Atticus holds her in very high esteem and insists that the children respect her completely.
243 Atticus on justice and race. something in our world that makes men lose their heads – they couldn’t be fair if they tried. 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.