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To Kill a M - Quotes
Quotes from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ‘Maycomb was an old town | but it was a tired old town |
| “Atticus can’t | do anything …” (Scout) |
| ‘Well, Atticus, I was just sayin’ to Mr | Cunningham that entailments are bad |
| ‘All the little man on the witness stand had that made him any | better than his nearest neighbours was, ...his skin was white.’ (Scout, page 189) |
| Mr Finch is always | courteous to everybody. |
| (Tom Robinson) ‘He looked oddly off balance… His left | arm was fully twelve inches shorter than his right, and hung dead at his side.’ |
| ‘Mr Gilmer seemed to be | prosecuting almost reluctantly’ |
| ‘Mayella Ewell must have been the loneliest person in the world… white | people wouldn’t have anything to do with her because she lived among pigs; N___ wouldn’t have anything to do with her because she was white’ (S |
| ‘Tom Robinson’s manners | were as good as Atticus’s |
| ‘I shut my eyes… Guilty | … guilty… guilty… guilty… |
| ‘… in the secret courts of men’s hearts Atticus had no case. Tom | was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.’ |
| ‘Our company shuffled and | dragged his feet, |
| “You never really understand a person … until | you climb into his skin and walk around in it” |
| the Ewells had been the | disgrace of Maycomb |
| Maycomb’s usual | disease” |
| remember it’s a sin | to kill a mockingbird.”’ |
| ‘”Real courage is … when you know you’re licked | before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what |
| “This case is as simple | as black and white. |
| “She (Mayella) is the victim of cruel poverty and | ignorance, but I cannot pity her: she is white |
| Mayella Ewell was beaten savagely by | someone who led almost exclusively with his left |
| when it’s a white man’s word against | a black man’s, the white man always wins. |
| ‘Atticus Finch won’t win, he can’t win, but | he’s the only man in these parts who can keep a jury out so long in a case like that |
| “I felt right sorry for her, | she seemed to try more’n the rest of ‘em”’ (Tom Robinson, page 217) |
| ‘There’s a black boy dead for no reason, and the man responsible for | it’s dead. Let the dead bury the dead this time, Mr Finch. Let the dead bury the dead.’ |
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