Quotes From 'To Kill A Mockingbird'

Maycomb is on edge; the racial divide is as sharp as a knife. Despite having lived there for their entire lives, young Scout and Jem Finch are naive to the extent the racial dynamics influence their lives. They are like many other members of Maycomb, holding prejuicides about those among them, notably their neighbor Bob Radley and Tom Robinson, a black man accused of rape. Boo is a legend, depicted to be a monster and the young children cannot resist the allure of trespassing his house. In many benevolent acts, Boo makes his presence indirectly felt, later intervening in a dangerous situation to protect Scout and Jem. Their dad, Atticus, embodies the moral of the story and his unique virtue acts as a guide in Scout and Jem’s maturity. He defends

In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus is the “mockingbird” of the story in that he is “killed” when other people are against his harmless “singing”. This is so because he innocently read with Scout at night against Miss Caroline’s will, he clearly had the upper side of evidence in the Tom Robinson trial yet still lost, and he persisted Aunt Alexandra’s blatant request of firing Calpurnia in order for her to be the housekeeper. All three of these reasons help to prove that he indeed took on such a role in the plot.

Power, it is something that everyone wants, it classifies us. “To Kill a Mockingbird” is about a powerless black man, Tom Robinson, accused of raping a white woman, Mayella Ewell. Because of Mayella’s class and gender she is powerless, but her race makes her have a little more power.

“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. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.” (Lee 149).

Do you know what it feels like to be powerless? A white nineteen year old woman named Mayella Ewell Falsely accuses a black man of raping her in Maycomb, Alabama, in the 1930’s, and is rendered powerless, due to being recessive in her social class, race, and gender. She does so in hopes of escaping her abusive father, and a chance to have a better life. Although Mayella is white, she has been shunned by African Americans and other white people. Mayella is a very young woman that does not own anything nice, nor clean, besides geranium flowers. During the 1930’s, men were the dominant sex, as a female, Mayella has to obey her father, Bob Ewell. As a result, Mayella was mistreated and abused.

This quotation quite literally means that when someone does something, they do not realize how it affects the person unless they experience it themselves. Atticus is saying “treat people the way you want to be treated” in this quotation. The mob that night was filled with regular people Atticus and the children saw on a daily basis, but there they were not themselves. Scout snapped them back into reality and let them know they were not doing the right thing. The use of wild animals symbolizing the mob truly showcases how strange they were acting due to a single court case. To me, the deeper meaning is that sometimes people do not do the correct thing and it makes them seem like animals, yet at the end of the day they are just like us. (Making a Connection/Interpreting)

A word in the beginning that was new to my vocabulary is ‘assuaged.’ Assuaged means to get rid of something. The first quote that reminded me of someone personal in my life is on page 1. On page 1, it says,”We were far too old to settle an argument with a fist-fight, so we consulted Atticus.” This reminds me of my little brother and me. In chapter one, the only relative introduced was his brother, John Hale Finch. Another character that was introduced in this chapter is Calpurnia. Calpurnia is the Finch’s cook. Another character that was introduced in chapter one is Dill. Dill is a friend that visits every summer. In chapter one, page 8, it says,”Dill was curious.” I can relate to this quote because I am a very curious person. This reminds

To begin with I will be characterizing Atticus as moral and caring. Within the story there is plenty of evidence to support Atticus as moral. The first piece of evidence that he is moral is when Atticus takes the Tom Robinson case. Atticus knows he cannot win the case. He takes the case and this proves he is moral because he takes the case that was handed to him and does not give up even though he knows he will lose. It also proves he is moral because the whole town is also against him as he takes the case. Another reason Atticus is moral is because he believes you should apologize for your wrongs. This quote helps to demonstrate this, “to do something like this to a sick old lady is inexcusable. I strongly advise you to go down and have a talk with

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee she uses many excellent quotes that can be broken down and analyzed, one of the quotes she uses is “People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.” The world and everyone in it isn’t what people always think it is. Furthermore, don’t judge people for how they look or act, dig deeper and get to know them. For example Scout remarks, “Atticus, he was real nice.”

There are many memorable quotes in the thousands of novels around the world, but there is definitely a good number of them in the popular novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. These quotes vary from many different kinds of topics. Some of these topics include being courageous, seeing something from someone else’s point of view, and mockingbirds. Courage sticks out out of all these examples. Quotes of courage and what it means, plus the different variations of it, are scattered around the book and can be tracked and analyzed to a few specific quotes.

Have you ever wondered how a person feels at that very moment? Or to be able to understand a person's actions. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee she uses the quote “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.” (39). The quote puts the thought in your mind, how would it be to live like this person, or that person? Whether it be the richest man alive or the poorest man, you can never understand a person's point of view until you're actually “walking around in their skin.” In addition, the quote relates to characters in the novel, and to someone I personally know, where you can never understand how a person thinks or feels unless you actually walk around in their skin.

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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe once said, “courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.” This quote means that no ordinary person can be known to be courageous. It takes someone who will stand by what they say no matter what the circumstances are and how they may be looked at in society. A courageous person doesn't have to always succeed, but put in the effort to try and prove their point in any way possible. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Lee mentions many courageous people whose actions speak louder than their words.

Scary houses, spooky people, and fun summer times are all a part of Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird. Set in the 1930s, this book describes the events of a broken elbow through the eyes of the sibling and narrator of the story, Scout. Up until chapter seven, Jem and Scout have been finding mysterious things in a neighborhood tree knothole. One day, they find that the tree’s hole had been filled in, suspecting that Nathan Radley did it to ward them off. There are a few gifts that I would have left Scout and Jem if I had an opportunity. Some of these gifts include a video camera and a million dollars.

As one considers the the topic of emotions anger might come to their thoughts, anger might be one of the the more common thought of emotion as it often takes control of one’s life. Fear might be another one of the the emotions that comes to mind. Even hatred may be a choice, because everyone has a hatred for something or someone. When considering all of the emotions revenge reigns over all of them. Revenge causes many things to occur, from death to injuries.