To Kill A Mocking Bird

Empathy
Speaker: Scout
Chapter: 24
Page #: 307/ 308
Quote: In the sudden silence that followed, Miss Stephanie Crawford called from across the room, “Whatcha going to be when you grow up, Jean Louise? A lawyer?” “Nome, I hadn’t thought about it…” I answered, grateful that Miss Stephanie was kind enough to change the subject.
Speaker: Aunt
Alexandra
Chapter: 24
Page #:315
Quote: “Didn’t they try to stop him? Didn’t they give him any warning?” Aunt
Alexandra’s voice shook.
Speaker: Jem
Chapter: 23
Page #:292
Quote: “Nothing’s happened. We’re scared for you, and we think you oughta do something about him.”
Speaker: Scout
Chapter: 16
Page #: 208n
Quote: “The full meaning of the night’s events hit me and I began crying. Jem was awfully nice about it: for once he didn’t remind me that people nearly nine years old didn’t do things like that.”
Speaker: judge taylor
Chapter: 18
Page #: 243
Quote: “That’s just Mr. Finch’s way,” he told Mayella. “We’ve done business in this court for years and years, and Mr. Finch is always courteous to everybody. He’s not trying to mock you, he’s trying to be polite. That’s just his way.”
Hypocrisy
Speaker: Aunt Alexandra
Chapter: 23
Page #: 300
Quote: “The fact is that he is not kin to us, but if he were, my answer would be the same.”
Speaker: Mrs. Merriweather
Chapter: 24
Page #: 308
Quote: “Not a white person will go near them but that saintly J. Grimes Everett.”
“…there’s nothing more distracting than a sulky darky…Just ruins your day to have one of ‘em in your kitchen.”
Speaker: lula
Chapter: 12
Page #:158
Quote: “You ain’t got no business bringin’ white chillun here- they got their church, we got our’n.”
Speaker: Mrs. Merriweather
Chapter: 24
Page #:309
Quote: “you are a fortunate girl. You live in a Christian home with Christian folks in a Christian town. Out there in J. Grimes Everett’s land there’s nothing but sin and squalor.”
Speaker: Miss Gates/ scout
Chapter: 26
Page #: 329/331
Quote: “I don’t know, Henry. They contribute to every society they live in, and most of all, they are a deeply religious people. Hitler’s trying to do away with religion, so maybe he doesn’t like them for that reason.”
“I heard her say it’s time somebody taught ’em a lesson, they were gettin‘ way above themselves, an’ the next thing they think they can do is marry us.”
Speaker: scout
Chapter: 17
Page #: 229
This was not true of Jem and me. We acquired no traumas from watching our father win or lose.
Characterization
Atticus Finch
Appreciated- “We followed him. The kitchen table was loaded with enough food to bury the family: hunks of salt pork, tomatoes, beans, even scuppernongs. Atticus grinned when he found a jar of pickled pigs’ knuckles. “Reckon Aunty’ll let me eat these in the diningroom?”
Talented- “Atticus was proceeding amiably, as if he were involved in a title dispute. With his infinite capacity for calming turbulent seas, he could make a rape case as dry as a sermon.”
Religious- “Scout, I couldn’t go to church and worship God if I didn’t try to help that man.”
Experienced/ understanding: “Jack! When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles ‘em.
Fair: “Atticus doesn’t ever just listen to Jem’s side of it, he hears mine too…
Mannerly- When I begged Atticus to use his influence, he said he had none—we were guests, and we sat where she told us to sit.”
Miss Maudie
Religious- “Maybe I can tell you,” said Miss Maudie. “If your father’s anything, he’s civilized in his heart. Marksmanship’s a gift of God, a talent—oh, you have to practice to make it perfect, but shootin’s different from playing the piano or the like. I think maybe he put his gun down when he realized that God had given him an unfair advantage over most living things. I guess he decided he wouldn’t shoot till he had to, and he had to today.”
Nosey: “With most of her possessions gone and her beloved yard a shambles, she still took a lively and cordial interest in Jem’s and my affairs.”
Scout
Indelicate/ unladylike: “This time, I split my knuckle to the bone on his front teeth. My left impaired, I sailed in with my right, but not for long. Uncle Jack pinned my arms to my sides and said, “Stand still!”
“When I said I could do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn’t supposed to be doing things that required pants.”
Protective: “He is not!” I roared. “I don’t know what you’re talkin‘ about, but you better cut it out this red hot minute!”
Youthful/ immature- “Yeah. Don’t say anything about it yet, but we’re gonna get married as soon as we’re big enough. He asked me last summer.”
Jem
Comforting- “Jem was becoming almost as good as Atticus at making you feel right when things went wrong.”
Matured- “In addition to Jem’s newly developed characteristics, he had acquired a maddening air of wisdom.”
Boo
Socially awkward: “His mouth was slightly open, and he looked at Jem from head to foot. Boo’s hand came up, but he let it drop to his side.“You can pet him, Mr. Arthur, he’s asleep. You couldn’t if he was awake, though, he wouldn’t let you…” I found myself explaining. “Go ahead.”Boo’s hand hovered over Jem’s head. “Go on, sir, he’s asleep.”His hand came down lightly on Jem’s hair.”
Kind hearted- “The man was walking with the staccato steps of someone carrying a load too heavy for him. He was going around the corner. He was carrying Jem. Jem’s arm was dangling crazily in front of him.”
Harmless- “Boo doesn’t mean anybody any harm…”
Lonely- “… If Mr. Ewell was as forgotten as Tom Robinson, Tom Robinson was as forgotten as Boo Radley.”
Tom Robinson
Considerate- “No suh, not after she offered me a nickel the first time. I was glad to do it, Mr. Ewell didn’t seem to help her none, and neither did the chillun, and I knowed she didn’t have no nickels to spare.”
Beaten up: “As he raised his right hand, the useless one slipped off the Bible and hit the clerk’s table”
Honest: “Well, I went lots of times.”
Mayella Ewell
Lonely- “When Atticus asked had she any friends, she seemed not to know what he meant, then she thought he was making fun of her.”
Dramatic: “Mayella looked from under lowered eyelids at Atticus, but she said to the judge: “Long’s he keeps on callin‘ me ma’am an sayin’ Miss Mayella. I don’t hafta take his sass, I ain’t called upon to take it.”
Soft- “Mayella stared at him and burst into tears. She covered her mouth with her hands and sobbed.”
Dolphus Raymond
Free- spirited: “Wh—oh yes, you mean why do I pretend? Well, it’s very simple,” he said. “Some folks don’t—like the way I live. Now I could say the hell with ‘em, I don’t care if they don’t like it. I do say I don’t care if they don’t like it, right enough—but I don’t say the hell with ’em, see?”
Humbled: “I know what you mean, boy,” said a voice behind us. We thought it came from the tree-trunk, but it belonged to Mr. Dolphus Raymond. He peered around the trunk at us. “You aren’t thin-hided, it just makes you sick, doesn’t it?”
Calpurnia
Hard- working: “Besides, I don’t think the children’ve suffered one bit from her having brought them up. If anything, she’s been harder on them in some ways than a mother would have been… she’s never let them get away with anything, she’s never indulged them the way most colored nurses do. She tried to bring them up according to her lights, and Cal’s lights are pretty good—and another thing, the children love her.”
Motherly/ comforting: “I burst into tears and fled to Calpurnia.”