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Matching: Quote identification - Name the speaker of the following:
Atticus: “Thank you for my children, Arthur.”
Dolphus Raymond: “Secretly, Miss Finch, I’m not much of a drinker, but you see they could never,
never understand that I live like I do because that’s the way I want to live.”
Atticus: “Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a
mockingbird.”
Scout:“Well, it’d be sort of like shootin’ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?”
Atticus: “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.”
Heck Tate: “... there's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even
then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em.”
Scout:“Hey, Boo.”
Dolphus Raymond: “Cry about the simple hell people give other people - without even thinking. Cry
about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping to think that they're people, too.”
Jem: “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.”
Heck Tate: “I may not be much, Mr. Finch, but I’m still sheriff of Maycomb County and Bob Ewell fell on
his knife.”
Dill: “The way that man called him ‘boy’ all the time and sneered at him...Hasn’t anybody got any
business talkin’ like that--it just makes me sick.”
Atticus: “As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell
you something, and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who
he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.”
Mrs. Merriweather: “I tell you there are some good but misguided people in this town...Folks in this
town who think they’re doing right, I mean.”
Dill: “There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus
and laugh my head off.”
Atticus: “I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before and they did it tonight and they'll do it
again and when they do it - seems that only children weep.”
Miss Maudie: “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy.”
Miss Maudie: “Whether Maycomb knows it or not, we're paying the highest tribute we can pay a man.
We trust him to do right. It's that simple.”
Scout: “Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of goodluck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took
out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.”
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Heck Tate: “Let the dead bury the dead.”
Atticus: “In the name of God, do your duty. In the name of God, believe Tom Robinson.”
Tom Robinson: "I felt sorry for her, she seemed to try more 'n the rest of 'em.”
Reverend Sykes: "Miss Jean Louise, Stand up. You're father's passin'.”
Mayella Ewell: “He took advantage of me. An' if you fine, fancy gentlemen ain't gonna do nothin' about
it, then you're just a bunch of lousy, yella, stinkin' cowards...”
SYMBOLISM:
Mrs. Duboseʼs last camellia to Jem: Some guides say forgiveness, but I believe it is
racism (you can decide which you prefer)
Mad dog: Racism/prejudice
Scoutʼs overalls: Childhood
Tom Robinsonʼs trial & death: Racism/prejudice
Character of Stonerʼs Boy in The Gray Ghost: Stereotypes
Booʼs gifts to the children in the knothole: Friendship
Ladies Missionary Circle: Hypocrisy, Racism/Prejudice
Mockingbird: Innocent person being persecuted for no reason
Lynch mob: Racism/Prejudice, Hatred
Mayellaʼs geraniums: Foolishness/Stupidity
Things you ought to know:
Item to know
ANSWER
Setting:
Time period (years)
1930s (1933 - 1935)
City/state
Maycomb, Alabama
Events going on in world
Great Depression, Nazis taking over Germany
Point-of-View of story
First-person or third person
Narrator
Scout (Jean Louise) Finch
Themes:
Give examples of how each theme listed is
shown or presented in the novel.
tolerance of others
Atticus displays tolerance for everyone--even Bob
Ewell and Mrs. Dubose
racism/prejudice
The townspeople show racism/prejudice against Tom
(how everyone came to see Tom convicted, as well
as his conviction itself even though he was
innocent); rumors about Boo (Stephanie Crawford);
Bob & Mayella Ewell show racism.
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Item to know
ANSWER
hypocrisy
Mrs. Merriweather shows hypocrisy by trying to help
the Mruna tribal people, yet being ugly to the Black
community; Miss Gates is hypocritical when she
feels awful for the German Jewish people because
of their persecution by Hitler, yet she promotes
persecution of the Black members in America;
Mayella wanted to kiss Tom, but was racist.
having a clear
conscience/doing the
right thing
Atticus demonstrates that doing the right thing is the
only way to live with a clear conscience; he knows
he couldnʼt live his life if he didnʼt try to help Tom
Robinson; Miss Maudie reinforces this point when
she confronts Mrs. Merriweather at the Ladies
Missionary Circle meeting--indicating that Atticus is
the one with the clear conscience; Heck Tate does
the right thing by claiming Bob fell on his knife; Link
Deas for standing up for Tom and Helen Robinson.
friendship
Boo Radley demonstrates friendship with his gifts to
the children--and his final one, by saving their lives
maturity/coming-of-age
Jem shows his maturity in how he treats Scout and
his realization of the evils of the world; Scout shows
her maturity in her treatment of Boo & realizing in the
end he isnʼt someone to be feared, but someone
who has been their protector and friend.
courage
Atticus shows courage throughout, standing up to
the townspeople and doing what is right even though
it means being scrutinized in public; Heck Tate
shows courage in the end by not exposing that Boo
killed Bob.
“manʼs inhumanity to
man”
The jury/townspeople convicting Tom and their racist
treatment of minorities; Bob & Mayella Ewellʼs
racism and false accusations; Stephanie Crawfordʼs
rumors about Boo; the kids acting out the “Radley”
drama; the mob coming to lynch Tom; Nazi treatment
of Jews; white people failing to see their hypocrisy
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Item to know
ANSWER
religion (mainly
“Christian”)
Hypocrisy in certain groups beliefs: Miss Maudie
being very well read in the Bible, but being told by
the “foot-washing” Baptists that she was going to
Hell for taking pride in her flowers (if someone truly
believes we are all Godʼs creations, then taking care
in all living things--even flowers--should be a good
thing). Mrs. Merriweather being considered the most
devout Christian in all of Maycomb, but treating the
minorities of Maycomb (especially Sophie) as if they
were third-class citizens (or even less)--un”Christian”
behavior.
Lesson Scout learns in
the end:
She learns that people really are nice when you take
the time to really “see” them--look at life through their
eyes and realize where they are coming from.