English 8
Burdett
Please analyze the following passages. Who is speaking? To whom? What is the situation? What is the significance?( character? theme? human nature?)
1) “Well, Dill, after all he’s just a Negro.”
2) “They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll it again and when they do it – seems that only children weep.”
3) “We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.”
4) “I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up in the house all this time... it’s because he wants to stay inside.”
5) “Out there in J. Grimes Everett’s land there’s nothing but sin and squalor.”
6) After all, if aunty could be a lady at a time like this, so could I.
7) He likened Tom’s death to the senseless slaughter of singbirds by hunters and children, and Maycomb thought he was trying to write an editorial poetical enough to be reprinted in The Maycomb Advertiser.
8) “Over here we don’t believe in persecuting anybody. Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced.”
9) “God damn it, I’m not thinking of Jem!”
10) ... he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.