Let’s Learn to Use MLA Citations
What is MLA Style? The Modern Language Association (MLA) developed a
style guide for academic writing. Part of the style guide deals with standardized
ways to document the writer’s source materials.
1. Using the internet to find the necessary information, properly cite the
following according to MLA:
 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale
 1984 by George Orwell
 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
 Dracula by Bram Stoker
 The Pearl by John Steinbeck
 A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
 The Things they Carried by Tim O’Brien
2. Refer to our Literature book and find five direct quotes from various stories.
Use parenthetical documentation for each one. You must write out the quote
and cite it properly according to MLA.
** Please put all information on one document and save as citation.betty
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1st- It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and
had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. ~Harper Lee, To
Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 11
2nd- They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect
for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with
myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 11, spoken by the character Atticus
3rd- She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by
watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.
~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 12
4th- I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a
Mockingbird, Chapter 23, spoken by the character Scout
5th- Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time
when they learn they're not attracting attention with it. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a
Mockingbird, Chapter 9, spoken by the character Atticus
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale1st- 'Thank yuh fuh yo' compliments, but mah wife don't know nothin' 'bout
no speech- makin'.. Ah never married her for nothin' lak dat. She's uh woman and
her place is in de home.'" Chapter 5, pg. 40-1
2nd- Take for instance that new house of his. It had two stories with porches,
with bannisters and such things. The rest of the town looked like servants' quarters
surrounding the "big house." And different from everybody else in the town he put
off moving in until it had been painted, in and out. And look at the way he painted
it - a gloaty, sparkly white." Chapter 5, pg. 44
3rd- "It was so crazy digging worms by lamp light and setting out for Lake
Sabelia after midnight that she felt like a child breaking rules. That's what made
Janie like it." Chapter 11, pg. 98
4th- "Janie held his head tightly to her breast and wept and thanked him
wordlessly for giving her the chance for loving service. She had to hug him tight
for soon he would be gone, and she had to tell him for the last time. Then the grief
of outer darkness descended." Chapter 19, pg. 175
5th- Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things
enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches." Chapter
2, pg. 8
1984 by George Orwell
1st- "We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness." Part 1,
Chapter 2, pg. 27
2nd- "With its grace and carelessness it seemed to annihilate a whole
culture, a whole system of thought, as though Big Brother and the Party and the
Thought Police could all be swept into nothingness by a single splendid movement
of the arm." Part 1, Chapter 3, pg. 33
3rd- "They were born, they grew up in the gutters, they went to work at
twelve, they passed through a brief blossoming period of beauty and sexual desire,
they married at twenty, they were middle-aged at thirty, they died, for the most
part, at sixty. Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels
with neighbors, films, football, beer, and, above all, gambling filled up the horizon
of their minds." Part 1, Chapter 7, pg. 71
4th- "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If
that is granted, all else follows." Part 1, Chapter 7, pg. 84
5th- "You will work for a while, you will be caught, you will confess,
and then you will die... There is no possibility that any perceptible change will
happen within our own lifetime. We are the dead." Part 2, Chapter 8, pg. 177
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1st- "He thinks she goes to see her sister in New York. He's so dumb
he doesn't know he's alive."Chapter 2, pg. 26
2nd- 'He borrowed somebody's best suit to get married in, and never
told me about it, and the man came after it one day when he was out...I gave
it to him and then I lay down and cried...all afternoon.'" Chapter 2, pg. 35
3rd- Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have
contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the
darkening streets....I saw him too, looking up and wondering. I was within
and without." Chapter 2, pg. 36
4th- I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one
of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited they went there." Chapter 3, pg. 41
5th- 'I belong to another generation....You sit...and discuss your sports
and your young ladies....As for me, I am fifty years old, and I won't impose
myself on you any longer.'" Chapter 4, pg. 73
Dracula by Bram Stoker
1st-I read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the
horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort of imaginative
whirlpool; if so my stay may be very interesting."
- Bram Stoker, Chapter 1, Dracula
2nd- When the Count saw my face, his eyes blazed with a sort of demonaic
fury, and he suddenly made a grab at my throat. I drew away, and his hand touched
the string of beads which held the crucifix. It made an instant change in him, for
the fury passed so quickly that I could hardly believe that it was ever there."
- Bram Stoker, Chapter 2, Dracula
3rd- As the Count leaned over me and his hands touched me... a horrible
feeling of nausea came over me, which, do what I would, I could not conceal."
- Bram Stoker, Chapter 2, Dracula
4th- The fair girl went on her knees and bent over me, fairly gloating. There
was a deliberate voluptuousness which was both thrilling and repulsive, and as she
arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal... I could feel the soft,
shivering touch of the lips on the supersensitive skin of my throat, and the hard
dents of two sharp teeth, just touching and pausing there."
- Bram Stoker, Chapter 3, Dracula
5th- The man was simply fastened by his hands, tied one over the other, to a
spoke of the wheel. Between the inner hand and the wood was a crucifix..."
- Bram Stoker, Chapter 7, Dracula
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
1st- "Sometimes it rose to an aching chord that caught the throat,
saying this is safety, this is warmth, this is the Whole." Chapter 1, pg. 4
2nd- "But the pearls were accidents, and the finding of one was luck, a
little pat on the back by God or the gods both." Chapter 2, pg. 22
3rd- "But the pearls were accidents, and the finding of one was luck, a
little pat on the back by God or the gods both." Chapter 2, pg. 22
4th- A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A
plan once made and visualized becomes a reality along with other realities -never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked." Chapter 3, pg. 37
5th- "And then Kino's brain cleared from its red concentration and he
knew the sound -- the keening, moaning, rising hysterical cry from the little
cave in the side of the stone mountain, the cry of death." Chapter 6, pg. 114
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
1st- "If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky
enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it."
-John Irving (A Prayer for Owen Meany)
2nd- "Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things
away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to
your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!"
-John Irving (A Prayer for Owen Meany)
3rd- "Keep passing the open windows."
-John Irving(A Prayer for Owen Meany)
4th- "Never confuse faith, or belief – of any kind - with something even
remotely intellectual."
- John Irving (A Prayer for Owen Meany)
5th- "If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make
death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and
romanticizes death that it makes the living feel they have missed something just by staying alive."
-John Irving (A Prayer for Owen Meany)
The Things they Carried by Tim O’Brien
1st- Quote 1: "Whenever he looked at the photographs, he thought of new
things he should have done." Chapter 1, pg. 5
2nd- Quote 2: "Oh shit, the guy's dead." Chapter 1, pg. 13
3rd- Quote 6: "Mellow, man. We got ourselves a nice mellow war today."
Chapter 3, pg. 33
4th- Quote 7: "All that peace, man, it felt so good it hurt. I want to hurt it
back." Chapter 3, pg. 35
5th- Quote 9: "Right then, with the shore so close, I understood that I would
not do what I should do." Chapter 4, pg. 57