IB English HL Paper 2 - Book Quotes

CDF Citation

García Márquez, Gabriel. Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Translated by Gregory Rabassa, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2003.

CDF quote 1

“The brothers were brought up to be men. The girls had been reared to get married…’They’re perfect,’ [Purísma del Carmen] was frequently heard to say. ‘Any man will be happy with them because they’ve been raised to suffer’” (García Márquez 31)

CDF quote 2

“‘I knew what they were up to,’ [Prudencia Cotes] told me, ‘and I didn’t only agree, I never would have married [Pablo] if he hadn’t done what a man should do’” (García Márquez 62).

CDF quote 3

“‘It was very easy,’ [Angela Vicario] told me, ‘because  I’d made up my mind to die’” (García Márquez 91).

Jane Eyre Citation

Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Bantam Classics, 1987.

JE quote 1

“I love you better now… than I did in your state of proud independence, when you disdained every part but that of the giver and protector” (Brontë 485).

JE quote 2

“... the longer I considered the position, education, &c., of the parties, the less I felt justified in judging and blaming either him or Miss Ingram for acting in conformity to ideas and principles instilled into them, doubtless, from their childhood” (Brontë 199).

JE quote 3

“Poverty looks grim to grown people… they think of the word only as connected with ragged clothes, scanty food, fireless grates, rude manners, and debasing vices: poverty for me was synonymous with degradation” (Brontë 20).

Oliver Twist Citation

Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. Vintage Books, 2012.

OT quote 1

“This was a vagrant of sixty-five who was going to prison… for begging in the streets, and doing nothing for his livelihood. In the next cell, was another man, who was going to the same prison for… doing something for his living, in defiance of the Stamp-office” (Dickens 93).

OT quote 2

“‘The prerogative of a man is to command.’ ‘And what’s the prerogative of a woman…?’ cried [Mrs. Bumble]. ‘To obey, ma’am,’ thundered Mr. Bumble. ‘Your late unfortunate husband should have taught it you…’” (Dickens 271).