Name ___________________________                                            English 8

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD quotes                                                 Kolesar

 

Analyze two of the following quotes, using the prescribed format.  Be sure to

Include a literary term in the significance.  Do not repeat or re-state the quote.

Try to REALLY ANALYZE it.  How does quote contribute to the overall significance

Of the novel?  (chapter #’s are in parentheses)

 

  1. Jem gave a reasonable description of Boo:  Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall,

Judging from his tracks;  he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch,

That’s why his hands were bloodstained . . .  there was a long jagged scar . . . .

what teeth he had were rotten; his eyes popped . . . and he drooled most of the time. (1)

 

  1. “That boy’s yo”comp’ny and if he want to eat up the table cloth you let him,

you hear?”  (3)

 

  1. “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.”  (3)

 

      4.”Someone inside the house was laughing.”  (4)

 

5.“That is three-fourths colored folks and one-fourth Stephanie Crawford.”  (5)

 

6.  “When I went back for my breeches – they were folded across the fence . . . like

      they were expectin’ me.”  (7)

 

  1. “Tree’s dying.”  (7)

 

  1. “Then whose blanket is that?’  (8)

 

  1. “Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to  try to win.”  (9)

 

  1.  “. . . . . now he’s turned out a nigger-lover, we’ll never be able to walk the streets of Maycomb.”  (9)

   11. “Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin

      to kill a mockingbird.”  (10)

 

  1. “People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.”  (10)

 

13.  “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage        

      is a man with a gun in his hand.”  (11)

 

  1. “It  (courage) is when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.”  (11)

 

  1. That Calpurnia led a modest double life never dawned on me.   (12)

 

  1. “From rape to riot to runaways . . . “ (14)

 

  1. “Maybe he (Boo) doesn’t have anywhere to run off to . . . . “  (14)

 

  1. A nightmare was upon us. (15)

 

  1. “The Ku Klux’s gone . . . . It’ll never come back.”  (15)

 

  1. “They gone?”  (15)

 

  1. “You know, it’s a funy thing about Braxton . . .  He despises Negroes,  won’t

have one near him.”  (16)

 

  1. “We also saw no resemblance to his (Bob Ewell) namesake.” (17)

 

21. “Can you read and write?” (17)

 

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  1. “You felt sorry for her, you felt sorry for her?”  (19)

 

24. But why had he (Dolphus Raymond) entrusted us with his deepest secret? . . .

      “Because you’re children and you can understand it . . .”  (20)

 

  1. . . . . he was talking to the jury as if they were folks on the post office corner. (20)

 

26. “. . .  she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society, a code

      so severe that whoever breaks it is hounded from our midst as unfit to live with. . . .      

    she struck out at her victim – of necessity she must put him away from her – he

      must be removed from her presence, from this world.  She must destroy the

      evidence of her offense.” (20)

 

27.“ . . .  we know that all men are not created equal in the sense that some people

would have us believe . . . . there is one way in this country in which all men are

created equal – there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a  Rockefeller . . . . that institution is a court.”   (end of chapter 20)

 

  1. What happened after that had a dreamlike quality: .. . . . .  (21)

 

  1. “It’s (the rape trial) just as much Maycomb County as missionary teas.”  (22)

 

 

 

  1. “I destroyed his last shred of credibility at that trial . . . so if spitting in my face and threatening me saved Mayella Ewell one extra beating, that’s something

I’ll gladly take.”  (23)

 

  1. “. . . . . whenever a white man does that (cheat) to a black man, no matter who

he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is

trash.”  (23)

 

  1. “They didn’t have to shoot him that much.”  (24)

 

  1. “. . . this town . .  . (is) perfectly willing  to let him wreck his health doing what

they’re afraid to do . . . “  (24)

 

  1. Maycomb was interested by the news of Tom’s death for perhaps two days. . .

To Maycomb Tom’s death was typical . . . easy come, easy go . . . when it comes

Down to the line the veneer’s mighty thin . . . Nigger always comes out in ‘em.

(25)

 

  1. . . .  in the secret court of men’s hearts Atticus had no case.  Tom was a dead man

the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.  (25)

 

  1. “ . . .  it’s time somebody taught ‘em a lesson, they were getting’ way above  

themselves, an’ the next thing  they think they can do is marry us.”  (26)

 

  1. “Thus began our longest journey together.”  (27)

 

38. “There’s a black boy dead for no reason, and the man responsible for it’s dead.

      Let the dead bury the dead this time, Mr. Finch.”  (30)

 

  1. He gently released my hand, opened the door, went inside, and shut the door

Behind him.   I never saw him again.    (31)