To Kill a Mockingbird: Notes and Quotes

Quotes in To veil a Mockingbird by theme Pride * I c tout ensemble up he loved honour to a greater extent than his head tattleing near Jem when he ran up to the Radley House on a dargon. A puerile example of the such(prenominal) more(prenominal) complex idea of pride explored in this book * When asked why he is defending Tom Robinson, genus genus genus genus genus Atticus reponds t wear if I didnt, I couldnt hold up my head in town * It was the first time I ever walked away from a press talent scout refuses to fight Cecil Jacobs even though he insults Atticus, because Atticus had asked her non to fight.She gave up her pride for the respect of her father. * While reconnoitre is proud that Atticus is the deadest shot in Maycomb County, Jem takes more pride in the fact that Atticus is no proud of this natural endowment and does not use it unless he has to, and that Atticus is a gentle while, identical me This is a great example of the way ideas qualify with youth. * Sh e intrust tongue to she was going to leave this world beholden to nil and nobody. Jem, when youre sick as she was, its twain right to take anything to take for it easier, but it wasnt all right for her.She tell she meant to break her self of it before she dies, and thats what she did About Ms Dubose, who was in addition proud to die a morphine addict * A major aspect of pride in this fresh if family pride. An example of this is when Jem and observatory withstand all of Ms Duboses insults and taunts, until she insults their father. When she exclaims that your fathers no better than the niggers and trash he workings for Jem loses it and destroys her garden. * It was a sad thing that my father had neglected to tell me intimately the Finch Family, or to install any pride into his children.As we have already seen, the Finch children be authorizedly proud of their father and themselves. However, aunty Alexandra considers family pride upmost they should not pride in At ticus for his bravery, but pride in him for upholding certain family traditions. To Alexandra, the best families were those who had lived on a certain plot of land longest. office/understanding other bulk * Theres some folk who have ont eat like us Another puerile example which explores the a great deal deeper idea of perspective * If you can check up on a simple trick, Scout, youll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks.You never really understand a person until you consider things from his drumhead of view until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. * You children put to work low nighttime made Walter Cunningham stand in my shoes for a minute. That was ample ( afterward the kinsfolk scene) * They could never, never understand that I live like I do because thats the way I want to live Mr Raymond the wino who claims he can tell them because youre children and you can understand it remote the adults. Atticus stands by his dogmas and is even able to see Mr Ewells blot of view Jem, see if you can stand in Bob Ewells shoes a minutes. I destroyed his last shred of believability at that trial Femininity * Sometimes you act so much like a girl its mortifyin * Jem told me I was existence a girl, that girls everlastingly imagined things, thats who other people hated them so * I declare to the lord youre getting more like a girl every day * I could not mayhap apprehend to be a lady if I wore breeches when I said I could do nothing in a dress she said I wasnt supposed to be doing things that required pants * Aunt Alexandra claims she moved in to provide Scout a feminine make for * I felt the walls of a pink cotton penitentiary decision in on me Growing up/youth * We shouldna make that tonight, Scout. It was then, I suppose, that Jem and I first began to part company. ( after the shooting at the Radley house when they tried to peek in the windows) * I was far too old and big for such childish things, and the so wizr I wise t o(p) to hold it in, the better off everybody would be. (About fighting) * When a child asks you something, answer him for virtue sake reveals Atticus unusual attitude about children he treats them with much more respect than most adults in the novel. Another good mention for this idea is this is their mob sisterWeve made it this way for them, they might as well learn to cope with it after Alexandra questions whether it was advisable to take the children to the audience * While Scout is proud that Atticus is the deadest shot in Maycomb County, Jem takes more pride in the fact that Atticus is no proud of this talent and does not use it unless he has to, and that Atticus is a gentleman, like me This is a great example of the way ideas change with youth. * Jem said I had to bring about up sometime (about facing Ms Dubose) * Its time you started being a girl and acting right While in the gone Jem had used girl as an insult, accusing Scout of becoming more and more like a girl every day, as he matures his perspective on this changes. * As Jem grows up, he develops a sense experience of maddening superiority, and considers himself part of the grown folks of Maycomb. * Jem broke the be code of our childhood when he valued adult rules more than childrens unspoken code of friendship and informed Atticus that Dill had run away from home. They could never, never understand that I live like I do because thats the way I want to live Mr Raymond the drunkard who claims he can tell them because youre children and you can understand it strange the adults. * So far nothing in your life has interfered with your motiveing mathematical process Theres something in our world that makes men lose their heads they couldnt be fair if they tried. * When Scout tell Jem that she thinks thithers on the dot one kind of people (she, like Atticus, believes in the inherent faithfulness of human beings) he responds Thats what I thought too when I was your age.If theres so und one kind of folks, why cant they get along with each other? * If Aunty could be a lady at a time like this, so could I. Far from the fist fighting youth with little control of her emotions, Scout has matured everywhere the course of the book and learned how to hide her feelings * had our classmates been left to their own devices, Jem and I would have had several swift, satisfying fist fights individually and ended the matter for good.As it was, we were compelled to hole our heads high and be, respectively, a gentleman and a lady Morality / good vs evil / the inherent probity of sympathy * Atticus Finch is unique in this novel in the way that he has seen evil without losing his faith in the human capacity for goodness. This is a major theme throughout the novel, and he tries to teach this lesson to his children by encouraging them to bar into the shoes of others. He takes Tom Robinsons case because of this belief, he knows that he is very unalikely to win, but he believes that it is possible to change the minds of the jury.He, unlike the others in this novel, believe that the jury are possible of the kind of goodness and bravery required to acquit Tom. * When Scout asks if they will win it, Atticus plainly says no, honey. He fights anyway. * Simply because we were liked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to test to win * I think maybe he put his gas down when he realised that God has given his an unfair vantage over most living things.I guess he dissolved he wouldnt shoot till he had to, and he had to today. * Scout, I couldnt go to church and worship God if I didnt fork over to help that man * I wanted you to see what real endurance is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. Its when you know youre licked before you begin abut you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.Mrs Dubose won * I was aimless into sleep when the memory of Atticy l calmly folding his newspaper and get-up-and-go abck his hat became Atticus standing in the middle of an empty waiting steep, pushing up his glasses. Scout links these two events together for a reason * Mr Cunninghams fundamentally a good man he just has his blind spots along with the succor of us A straightlaced insight into Atticus mind, a good credit to evidence his belief in the inherent goodness in humanity * You children last night made Walter Cunningham stand in my shoes for a minute.That was enough (after the mob scene) * Scout compares the court day to watching Atticus walk into the street, wind a rifle to his shoulder and pull the trigger, but watching all the time knowing that the gun was empty * So far nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process Theres something in our world that makes men lose their heads they couldnt be fair if they tried. * Ms Merriweather believes that many of the people in Maycomb are good, but misguided * The novel is concluded with a final moral debate whether or not to persecute Bob Ewells despatcher. When Atticus thought that Jem had stabbed Ewell in self defence, he was adamant that Jem should go through the proper process in court rather than have rumours circulating about him his whole life. However, when Heck Tate finally convinced Atticus that it was in fact Arthur Radley that killed Ewell, Atticus finds himself in a moral dilemma.He finally concedes that Mr Ewell fell on his knife, and asks if Scout could possibly understand. She does, explaining perfectly that persecuting Arthur Radley would be sort of like shootin a mockingbird, wouldnt it? Arthur Radley was already destroyed once by the evil in humanity, and Atticus and Scout agreed that it would be wrong to make someone as impartial and shy as him to defend himself in court, even if he did not do anything wrong. Racism * Hes ruining the family * Hes nothin but a nigger lover * Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anyt hing involving a Negro comes up, is something I dont pretend to understand (Atticus) * Your fathers no better than the niggers and trash he works for This blatant racism comes from Ms Dubose. * They got their church, we go ourn The racial divide in this novel goes both ways. This is further explored when Jem explains to Scout about mixed children, and how they dont break down anywhere * Mr Finch. If you was a nigger like me, youd be terrified too The witnesses for this state have presented themselves to you gentlemen confident that you gentlemen would go along with them on the assumption the evil assumption that all Negroes lie, that all Negroes are basically immoral beings, that all Negro men are not to be trusted around our women * In our courts, when its a white mans word against a black mans, the while man incessantly wins. Theyre ugly, but those are the facts of life Innocence * The children believe in goodness because they have not yet confronted evil. When they do, the y respond differently.Dill cries (eg courthouse scene) and prompts the memorable quote it seems only the children cry. Dill makes the reader long for youthful artlessness and belief in human goodness. Jem copes better with the shock initially, but after Toms death loses much of his faith in humanity and the justice system. He gets furious at once point, exclaiming I dont ever wanta hear about that courthouse again, ever, ever, you hear me? Scout deals better with the shock, and despite the courts decision, people like Atticus and Miss Maudie help her retain her faith in human goodness. * Mockingbirds dont do one thing but make unison for us to enjoy.Thats why its a sin to kill a mockingbird Ms Maudie. A wonderful metaphor for one of the books main themes the loss of innocence. This situation is replicated in a real life situation in the last scene, where Atticus and Heck Tate decide it immoral to convict Arthur Radley of manslaughter when all he was trying to do was harbor the Finch children. * Tell him hey for me, wont you? Scouts moving talk with Mr Cunningham proves the power of innocence. It was Scouts youthful innocence that made Mr Cunningham and the rest of the mob reconsider the position they were in.Her speech broke the mob outlook and brought Mr Cunningham back to morality * Jem compares the reveal of evil in confederation to like bein a caterpillar in a cocoon, thats what it is I always thought Maycomb folks were the best folks in the world, least thats what they seemed like. * He likened Toms death to the senseless slaughter of songbirds by hunters and children (Mr Underwood) Society * She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a buckram and time-honoured code of our society she tempted a black man * This is their home sisterWeve made it this way for them, they might as well learn to cope with it after Alexandra questions whether it was advisable to take the children to the hearing * While society shuns and hates the black peopl e living near them, the Missionary Tea Parties give insight into how hypocritical society is when they pity the Mrunasliving in that hobo camp the poverty the darkness * The hypocritical society is further explored in the drawing reference to the Holocaust in the comments of Scouts teacher (Miss Gates) that over here we dont believe in persecuting anybody. Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced.