Atticus Flashcards
One Way
‘I can’t live one way in town and another in my home.’
Connived
‘Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him…if I connived at something like this, frankly I couldn’t meet his eye’
Hushing
‘but nobody’s hushing this up. I don’t live that way.’
Beating
‘So if spitting in my face and threatening me saved Mayella Ewell one extra beating, that’s something I’ll gladly tale.’
Unpleasant Jobs
‘there are some men in this world who were born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. You father’s one of them.’
Human Race
‘But this is the truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men. There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing’
Impression
‘Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folk were people who did the best they could with the sense they had’
Insult
‘I do my best to love everybody…it’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you. So don’t let Mrs Dubose get you down. She has enough troubles of her own.’
Majority Rule
‘They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions… but 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.’
Pride
‘People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.’
Civilsed
‘If your father’s anything, he’s civilised in his heart… I think maybe he put he put his gun down when he realised that God had given him an unfair advantage over most living things.’
Same
‘Atticus Finch is the same in his house as he is on the public streets.’
His Point of View
‘You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until climb into his skin and walk around in it.’
