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English 9 Honors
To Kill a Mockingbird: Chapters 21 - 25
Character Study through Quotes: Read over the quotes and select three characters to
examine. Discuss how Scouts maturity reveals a new character attribute that was unknown to
Scout (the reader). Be ready to share.
Homework: Select three quotes from Chapters 29 – 31 and answer the following:
What lesson is Harper Lee teaching Society? How is this lesson revealed to the reader through the
character of Scout?
“Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father’s passin’.” (Lee 211)
Reverend Sykes
“Calpurnia said, “This was all ‘round the back steps when I got here this morning.
They—they ‘preciate what you didi, Mr. Finch. They—they aren’t oversteppin’
themselves are they?” Atticus’s eyes filled with tears. He did not speak for a moment.
“Tell them I’m very grateful.” He said. “Tell them—tell them they must never do this
again. Times are too hard…”(Lee 213). Calpurnia and Atticus
“I simply want to tell you that there are some men in this world who were born to do our
unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.” (Lee 215) Miss Maudie
“The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color
of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.”
(Lee 220). Atticus Finch
“There’s four kinds of folks in the world. There’s ordinary kind like us and the
neighbors, there’s the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods, the kind like the
Ewells down at the dump, and the Negroes. (Lee 226). Jem Finch
“I can’t say I approve of everything he does, Maudie, but he’s my brother, and I just want
to know when this will ever end.” Her voice rose: “It tears him to pieces. He doesn’t
show it much, but it tears him to pieces. I’ve seen him when—what else do they want
from him, Maudie, what else? “What does who want, Alexandra?” Miss Maudie asked.
“I mean this town. They’re perfectly willing to let him do what they’re afraid to do
themselves—it might lose’em a nickel. They’re perfectly willing to let him wreak his
health doing what they’re afraid to do, they’re—“ (Lee236). Aunt Alexandra and Miss Maudie
“Maycomb was interested by the news of Tom’s death for perhaps two days; two days
was enough for the information to spread through the county.” (Lee 240) Jean Louise Finch