TKAM Quotes

‘that boy

might go to the chair’

•      Atticus to Link Deas, when explaining why he will defend Tom

‘when it’s

    a white man’s word against a black man’s, the white man always wins’

• Atticus explaining verdict to Jem and scout

Heck Tate to Atticus to protect boo

-          ‘Bob Ewell fell on his knife. He killed himself’

‘shapes

     moving toward the jail door’

Lynch mob

Lula to Calpurnia, doesn’t like Jem/Scout in first purchase

-          ‘it is our church’

‘when someone’s

-          azaleas froze in a cold snap, it was because he had breathed on them’

Rumor about Boo

When scout doesn’t want to try and see Boo

-          ‘you’re getting’ more like a girl everyday’

‘Atticus Finch won’t win.

-          He can’t win. But he’s the only man…who can keep a jury out so long on a case like that’

Miss Maudie highlighting Atticus’s abilities as a lawyer

‘she’s a faithful

member of this family’

Atticus defending Cal to Aunt A when she wants to get rid of her

‘loneliest

-          person in the world’

Mayella

he gave us two

-          two soap dolls…and our lives’

Scout about Boo Radley

‘stand up.

-          Your father’s passing’

Reverend Sykes to Scout

‘when you know

-          you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway’

About mrs dubose overcoming addiction, reflects atticus and the trial

‘took an eight-

-          year -old child to bring ‘em to their senses’

Atticus to Jem about the lynch mob

Scout’s description of Maycomb

-          ‘tired old town’ ‘courthouse sagged in the square’

How atticus describes racism to uncle jack

-          ‘Maycomb’s usual disease’

‘the one place

-          where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow’

Atticus to jem  after court case

“Simply because

-          we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.”

Atticus justifying to scout why he’s taken the case even though he knows he can’t win

“Before I can live

-          with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.”

-          Atticus justifying to scout why he’s taken the case even though he knows he can’t win

“You just hold

-          your head high and keep those fists down’’

 

Atticus to Scout after she gets into a fight at school over Atticus

Jem’s Courage

‘Jem was born a hero’ ‘Jem never declined a dare’

‘the bravest

-          bravest person I ever knew’

Atticus about Mrs Dubose/addiction

Scout about Atticus shooting tim johnson

-          ‘Atticus’s hand yanked a ball-tipped lever’

‘taking the one man

-          who has done you and this town a great service and dragging him into the limelight, to me that is a sin’

Heck Tate to atticus after boo kills Bob ewell

Atticus to Boo after he saves the children

-          ‘thank you for my children, Arthur’

‘you were so busy

-          busy looking at the fire you didn’t even notice when he put the blanket around you’

Atticus after boo gives scout blanket when miss maudie’s house burns down

‘Calpurnia always won

-          mainly because Atticus always took her side’

Scout about arguments with cal

I couldn’t have

-          got along without her’

Atticus to aunt A about cal

Cal to children when she is getting them ready to go to first purchase

-          ‘I don’t want anyone sayin’ I don’t look after my children’

‘Mr Ewell said it

-          made one down and about two more to go’

Stephanie crawford to aunt Alexandra in Jem’s presence after Tom robinson is killed

Aunt Alexandra - classist

“There is no doubt in my mind that they’re good folks. But they’re not our kind of folks.”

aunt alexandra bout walter cunningham

Aunt a  when talking about Walter Cunningham

-          ‘“Because -  he-is-trash, that’s why you can’t play with him’

“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.”

‘tom was

a dead man the minute Mayella opened her mouth and screamed’

scout after killing of Tom Robinson