Themes Flashcards
MAYCOMB
“Sipping, whispering, fanning”
“So it took an eight year old to bring ‘em their senses”
“I guess it ain’t your fault if Uncle Atticus is a nigger-lover besides”
RELIGION
“This case is something that goes to the essence of a man’s consience” - Atticus
“Aunt Alexandra was positively irritable on the lord’s day”
“Footwashers believe anything that’s pleasure is a sin”
“There goes the meanest man ever God blew breath into”
GROWING UP
“With him, life was a routine, without him, life was unbearable. I stayed miserable for two days”
“I soon forgot” (to control temper)
“Mister Jem”
(Jem quotes)
EDUCATION
“I never deliberately learned to read”
“Scout yonder’s been readin’ ever since she was born”
“a good one, even if it does resist learning”
Prescriptive, limiting
