Who’s who?
Aunt Alexandra
Miss Maudie
Charles Baker Harris or “Dill”
Mr. Heck Tate
Mr. Link Deas
What, when, So Significant Quotables Potpourri
Where, and why?
(Identify the speaker, situation, and significance)
In the “colored” balcony
This is what Boo puts over Scout during the fire. It is their first physical contact and another sign he is kind.
“Speaker: Scout
Situation: a mob is about to attack
Tom by going through Atticus in front of the jail
Significance: By singling Cunnigham out, she has made him personally responsible for what he is about to do. She unintentionally recalls his conscience.
A ham
To see things from someone else’s perspective-or to walk in someone else’s skin.
That’s why the book end this way-
Maycomb, Alabama
1930s
It got stuck in a cotton gin when he was a youththe muscles tore off.
He felt sorry for
Mayella Ewell
Refers to the literal incident of the killing a musical bird, but symbolically to Boo and
Tom. Tom is destroyed while
Boo is saved.
Because the teacher denounces prejudice against
Jews but is bigoted against
Tom.
The Cunnighams
Atticus is idealistic/ optimistic in the court as “the great equalizer,” despite knowing that people” bring their resentments into the jury box.” Mr. Raymond is more realistic/pessimistic of this system. He chooses to deceive people since they will believe what they want anyway.
In this way, he lives the way he wants to in peace, while Atticus finds no peace in the courts.
Mayella says this in court under
Atticus’s cross examination. She would rather lie in open court and protect a man who has beat her rather than admit she had feelings for a black man.
Scout to Ms. Fisher about the Ewells.
The town’s blind acceptance of the
Ewells poor behavior foreshadows the troubles the family causes later.
Heck says this to Atticus after Ewell is found stabbed. Atticus thinks
Jem killed Bob while Heck is trying to protect Boo.
Atticus says this about Ms. Dubose’s desire to die free from her addiction.
Leaves gifts in the tree
Covers Scout with a blanket
Saves their lives three
A democracy
Beats his children
Hunts out of season
Does not send his kids to school
Breaks into the judge’s house
Spits at and verbally assaults/harasses Atticus
Stalks Helen Robinson
Attacks the kids