To Kill A Mockingbird Quotes Flashcards
(30 cards)
Scout as innocent
“Somehow, it was hotter then”
Scout as intelligent
“Scout yonder’s been readin‘ ever since she was born”
Scouts changing views on Boo Radley
“Atticus, he was real nice”
Scout rebelling against social norms
“you act so much like a girl it’s mortifyin’”
Scout unafraid to speak out
“Jean Louise, I’ve had about enough of you this morning,”
Jem as kind
“Come on home to dinner with us, Walter,”
Jem as daring
“Jem…slapped it with his palm and ran back past us”
Jem as protective
“Run, Scout! Run! Run!”
Jem as emotional
“He did not begin to calm down until he had cut the tops off every camellia “
Jem being enlightened to the unjust society
“I thought I wanted to be a lawyer but I ain’t so sure now!”
Atticus as a moral compass
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view”
Atticus as an educator
“Atticus is a gentleman, just like me!”
Atticus empathising
“Let that be the least of your worries, Walter,”
Atticus as unprejudiced
“a quiet, humble, respectable Ne***”
Atticus protecting the vulnerable
“Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
Boo Radley as kind
“they were folded across the fence…They’d been sewed up.”
Boo Radley as isolated
“Tree’s dying. You plug ’em with cement when they’re sick.”
Boo Radley as subject to rumour
“malevolent phantom…but Jem and I had never seen him.”
Boo Radley as vulnerable
“in the voice of a child afraid of the dark.”
Boo Radley as heroic
“Thank you for my children, Arthur,”
Tom Robinson as hard working
“That boy’s worked for me eight years an’ I ain’t had a speck o’trouble outa him.”
Tom Robinson as innocent
“we’re gonna win, Scout. I don’t see how we can’t”
Tom Robinson as disadvantaged
he “has had to put his word against two white people’s.”
Tom Robinson as endangered
“Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.”
