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pfgg1[qqi Find the following quotations in chapters 9 -12 in the novel and re-read the sections in which you find them to examine the
context surrounding them. What does the quotation mean? What is its importance? Who said it and to whom? How does the quotation
connect to the novel as a whole? Write a/ least 3 sood sentencesoer quotation analvsis. I comnleted the first one for vou.
" 'Do you defend niggers, Atticus?"'
(Lee 99). Chapter 9
Scout asked Atticus
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" '. . . ifl didn't I couldn't hold my head up
in town, I couldn't representthis county in
the legislanre, I couldn't even tell you or
Jem not to do somethingagain"' (100).
Chapter 9
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" 'Atticus, are we going to win it?"'
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" 'Simply becausewe were licked a
hundred years before we started is no
reasonfor us not to try to win"' (101).
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Cecil Jacobstold Scout at school that her father defends
"niggers". He made Scout so mad that she beat him up. Scout's
question catalyzesthe theme in the novel focusing on racial
injustice in the South through Atticus's defense ofa black man,
Tom Robinson. Scout's question reminds the reader ofher
childlike innocence; she does not fully understandwhy it is
considered wrong in her society for a white man to defend a
black man in court. Atticus's reply that he does defend black
men separateshim from the overall thinking pattem ofthe rural
South.
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" 'My folks said your daddy was a disgrace
an' that nigger oughta hang lrom the watertank!"' (102). Chapter 9
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" 'Grandma says he hasn't got a home-he
just gets passedaround from relative to
relative, and Miss Rachel keeps him every
summer"' (109-10). Chapter 9
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" '. . .You know what's going to happen as
well as I do, Jack, and I hope and pray I can
get Jem and Scout through it without
bittemess, and most of all, without catching
Maycomb's usual disease.Why reasonable
people go stark raving mad when anything
involving a Negro comes up, is something I
don't pretend to understand.. . I just hope
Jem and Scout come to me for their
answersinstead of listening to the town"'
(117). Chapter 9
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" 'Shoot all the bluejaysyou want, ifyou
can hit 'em, but rememberit's a sin to kill a
mockingbird"' (l l9). Chapter 10