To Kill A Mockingbird key quotes
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- To Kill A Mockingbird
- Jem
- "I saw he had been crying"
- "Atticus is a gentleman - just like me!"
- Scout - "Why couldn't I mash him?" Jem- "because they don't bother you"
- "they don't want us here"
- Scout
- "boys don't cook"
- "I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks"
- "Atticus was right. you never really know a man until you walk in his shoes, standing on the Radley porch was enough"
- "I must soon enter this world"
- "well it'd be sort of like shootin' a mockingbird wouldn't it"
- "like a giant with a big foot had stepped on her"
- "I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks"
- Aunt A -"you should be in a dress and camisole"
- "boys don't cook"
- Atticus
- "Atticus was related by blood or marriage to nearly every family"
- "we're fighting our friends"
- "the evil assumption - that ALL *****es lie..."
- Francis "****** lover"
- "anything fit to say at the table's fit to say in front of Calpurnia"
- "we're fighting our friends"
- "you never really understand a person until you consider things from their POV"
- "shoot all the bluejays you want, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird"
- Scout - "the bravest man who ever lived"
- "this case is as simple as black and white"
- "no matter who he is, how rich, or how fine a family, that white man is trash"
- "Atticus was related by blood or marriage to nearly every family"
- Calpurnia
- "her hand was wide as a bed slat and twice as hard"
- "keep your mouth shut or talk their language"
- "*****es worshipped in it, white men gambled"
- "her hand was wide as a bed slat and twice as hard"
- life in maycomb
- "he knew his people, they knew him"
- "people moved slowly then"
- "Maycombs usual disease"
- "Four *****es rose and gave us their front row seats"
- a microcosm for american southern states
- Miss Maudie -"one sprig of nut-grass can ruin a whole yard...blows it all over Maycomb!"
- Rev. Sykes -"stand up, your fathers passin'"
- "inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb society school system"
- Tea group -"you simply are not being Christian today"
- The Radleys
- malevolent phantom
- Jem -"he dined on raw squirrels"
- Cunninghams
- "talked together like two men"
- Scout "Just a Cunningham"
- Ewells
- "filthiest human I had ever seen"
- Scout - "Mayella must've been the lonliest person in the world, lonlier than Boo"
- "people like the Ewells"
- Mayella = "fragile looking"
- "lived behind the town garbage dump in what was once a ***** cabin"
- "filthiest human I had ever seen"
- Tom Robinson
- Mr Gilmer - "YOU felt SORRY for HER?"
- "Seventeen bullet holes in him"
- Atticus -"i guess Tom was tired of white men's chances and preferred to take his own"
- "Tom's death was Typical"
- Aunt Alexandra
- Scout -"she said I wasn't supposed to be doing things that required pants"
- "fitted into the world of Maycomb like a glove, but not in mine&Jem's word"
- "she was an incurable gossip"
- "everyone in Maycomb, it seemed, had a streak"
- Scout -"she said I wasn't supposed to be doing things that required pants"
- Mrs Dubose
- "Atticus - "she was the bravest woman i ever knew"
- Dill
- "made me sick, plain sick"
- "there ain't one thing in this world i can do about folks except laugh"
- Dolphus Raymond
- "I try to give 'em a reason. it helps folks if they can latch onto a reason"
- "because you're children and you can understand it"
- Jem
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