To Kill A Mockingbird Important Quotes

Atticus makes mistakes about klu-klux-klan

"the ku klux's gone" said Atticus "it'll never come back"

Atticus taught scout how to read- miss Caroline

"your father does not know how to teach"

Atticus quote - racism & skin

"you never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it"

aunt Alexandra fits in with maycombs gossip society

"Macomb welcomed her"

aunt Alexandra calls scout

"jean-louise"

aunt Alexandra - calpurnia food

"she did not permit calpurnia to make the delicacies"

bob Ewell - living situation

"maycomb's wells lived behind the town garbage dump in what was once a negro cabin"

boo Radley - perceived

"malevolant phantom"

boo radley - fictional monster- jem

" he walks like this- " jem slid his feet through the gravel

dill character

based off Truman Capote - literary author

dill represents

innocence

the book is a

bildungsroman

calpurnia - white ppl

"calpurnia rarely commented on the ways of white people"

calpurnia - mad dog

"she's supposed to go round the back"

calpurnia maternal

"I don't want anybody sayin' I don't look after my children"

calpurnia - character

mother figure to jem and scout, Atticus trusts her

dill - imagination

"dill was off again"

dill - read

"I can read"

jem -snake

"he began pouring our secrets out right and left"

jem - scout danger

"run, scout! run! run!"

jem - self-conscious

"can't anybody take a bath in this house without the whole family looking'?"

jem- please Atticus

"a lickin' hurts but it doesn't last"

Maudie is considered

the female version of Atticus

Maudie - boo

"his name's author and he's alive"

Maudie - garden

" she loved everything that grew in gods garden"

mayella - age

"nineteen-and-a-half"

mayella - friends

the witness frowned as if puzzled. "friends?"

mayella - clean

"mayella looked as if she tried to keep clean"

mayella - Atticus, mockery

"won't answer another word you say s'long as you keep on mockin' me"

mayella - treated like child

"now you're a big girl"

mrs dubose - sexism

"you should be in a dress"

mrs dubose - finch

"a finch waiting on tables at the ok cafe - ha!"

scout - mrs dubose

"jem and i hated her"

scout - hymn books

"where are the hymn books?"

scout - jem understand

"I c'n understand anything you can"

Walter Cunningham- depression

"they were hit hard by the depression"

mockingbird quote

"shoot all the bluejays you want, if you hit 'em, but remember its a sin to kill a mockingbird"

Atticus - courage