Quotes

Reflection

"Lawyers, I suppose, were children once."  -Charles Lamb Page.0

This Qoute is in the to me is a big part of the story because it is kind of saying to us that although the lawyers sometimes seem to have no heart or seem to be ruthless they still were little kids at one point in time

"Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square. Somehow it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summers day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum."  -Scout Page 5

It reallly shows you how Scout feels about Maycomb and what Maycomb is like from here perspective as a little girl.

"If you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-" - Atticus Page 30

This is just one of Atticus's marvelous lines that just shows how much he knows about life and how much Scout looks up to him throughout the book.

"Putting his life's history on display for the edification of the neighborhood.'" -Atticus Page 49

This is Atticus explaining to Scout and Jem why exactly Boo or Mr. Arthur likes to stay hidden inside the house and this is the first time you see Atticus really being stern with his childeren.

"As Atticus once advised me to do, I tried to climb into Jem's skin and walk around in it: if I had gone alone to the Radley Place at two in the morning, my funeral would have been held the next afternoon. So I left Jem alone and tried not to bother him." -Scout Page 57

This is just one example of how Scout uses Atticus advice in life to get herself out of a conflict.

"Atticus said to Jem one day, 'I'd rather you shoot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." -Scout Page 90

This the first time that Atticus has ever told Scout or Jem that is a sin to do something. Also I feel as if Atticus thinks of Killing a Mockingbird and analogie to Tom RObinson and Boo Radely because they are both pure at heart and havent caused any harm but they are still sometimes attacked.

"She was. She had her own views about things, a lot different from mine, maybe...Son, I told you that if you hadn't lost your head I'd have made you go read to her. I wanted you to see something about her. 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.'" - Atticus Page 112

This is from Atticus talking to Jem about Mrs. Dubose and how although sometimes you may think there is no chance you win you still have to try. Kind of like how Atticus has no chance with the Tom Robinson case but he is still going to try and get proper justice.

"'It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike -in the second place, folks don't like to have someone around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates 'em. You're not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.'"  -Calpurnia Page 126

Here is Calpurnia explainging to Scout why she talks proper English at home with Scout but while at church she talks slang and what not. This is also Calpurnia setting an example to Scout on how to be "lady like".

"I never understood her preoccupation with heredity. Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandria was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was." -Scout Page 130

This is Scout thinking about how her and Aunt Alexandria has different less mature opinion on what makes folks fine.

"This was news, news that put a different light on things: Atticus had to, whether he wanted to or not. I thought it odd that he hadn't said anything about it-we could have used it many times defending him and ourselves. He had to, that is why he was doing it, equaled fewer fights and less fussing." - Scout Page 163

This Scout basically talking to herself but it has a big significance because it shows that there is a reason Atticus didnt tell them that he had to take the case because Atticus really wants the case because he beileives justice needs to be served.

"Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time. It's because he wants to stay inside." -Jem Page 227

This is a quote from Jem that just shows you how much he has grown up and thinks that Boo is smart for staying isolated so that he doesnt have to be among corrupt men.

"'Why couldn't I mash him?' I asked.

'Because they don't bother you,' Jem answered in the darkness. He had turned out his reading light." -Jem  Page 238

This is a two part qoute but i feel that it is of real importance because this is Jem showing how he has learned from the Tom Robinson case and how nothing that does no harm to you should be harmed.

"So many things had happened to us, Boo Radley was the least of our fears. Atticus said he didn't see how anything else could happen, that things had a way of settling down, and after enough time had passed people would forget that Tom Robinson's existence was ever brought to their attention." -Scout Page 243

This is Scout ironicallty foreshadowing what would soon happen later in the book when Boo reapears.

"Shuffle foot had not stopped with us this time. His trousers swished softly and steadily. Then they stopped. He was running, running toward us with no child's steps."  - Scout Page 261

This is in the scene when Bob Ewell is trying to attack them and this is the moment when you know something bad is about to happen to Scout and Jem.

"When I pointed to him his palms slipped slightly, leaving greasy sweat steaks on the wall, and he hooked his thumbs in his belt. A strange small spasm shook him, as if he heard fingernails scrape slate, but as I gazed at him in wonder the tension slowly drained from his face. His lips parted into a timid smile, and our neighbor's image blurred with my sudden tears." -Scout Page 270

This is the first time Scout ever see's Boo and she doesnt know what to do.

"Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough."-Scout  Page 279

This is when Scout finally looks at things from Boo's point of view. And she understands all the learning experiences she has been through and how they have changed her for the better.