Mockingbird Quotes Essay

Chapter 1Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I introductory knew it. . . . There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County. But it was a quantify of vague optimism for some of the people Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself. Chapter 3 You never really take a person until you picture things from his point of viewuntil you backing into his skin and walk around in it.Chapter 7As Atticus once advised me to do, I tried to climb into Jems skin and walk around in it if I had gone alone to the Radley Place at two in the morning, my funeral would have been held the next afternoon. So I left Jem alone and tried not to bother him. Chapter 9When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But arrogatet manage a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and eva sion simply muddles em. You might hear some ugly chew out about it at school, but do one thing for me if you will you just hold your head high and keep those fists down.No matter what anybody says to you, dont you let em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change. Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to winAtticus verbalise, Youve a lot to learn, Jack. I hold up. Your daughter gave me my first lessons this afternoon. She said I didnt witness children much and told me why. She was quite right. Atticus, she told me how I should have tr downed her-oh dear, Im so stern I romped on her. Chapter 10 Remember its a sin to kill a mockingbird. That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked cut down Maudie about it. Your fathers right, she said. Mockingbirds dont do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They dont eat up peoples gardens, dont nest in corncribs, they dont do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. Thats why its a sin to kill a mockingbird. Chapter 11 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.The one thing that doesnt abide by majority rule is a persons conscience. Its when you slam youre licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. Its when you know youre licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. Chapter 13I never understood her soaking up with heredity.Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it wa s. Chapter 14Thats because you cant hold something in your mind but a little while, said Jem. Its different with grown folks, we- His maddening superiority was unbearable these days.He did not want to do anything but read and go off by himself. Chapter 19Mr. Gilmer smiled grimly at the jury. Youre a mighty good fellow, it seems- did all this for not one penny? Yes suh.I felt right sorry for her, she seemed to try moren the rest of em- You felt sorry for her, you felt sorry for her? Mr. Gilmer seemed ready to rise to the ceiling. Chapter 20Our courts have their faults, as does any clement institution, but in this country our courts are the great levellers, and in our courts all men are created equal. Chapter 22 Theyve done it before and they did it tonight and theyll do it once again and when they do itseems that only children weep. Chapter 23Scout, I think Im beginning to understand something. I think Im beginning to understand why Boo Radleys stayed shut up in the house all t his time.Its because he wants to stay inside. Chapter 25 Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save gobbler Robinson, but in the secret courts of mens hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed. Why couldnt I mash him? I asked. Because they dont bother you, Jem answered in the darkness. He had turned out his reading light. Chapter 30Atticus looked like he needed cheering up. I ran to him and hugged him and kissed him with all my might. Yes sir, I understand, I calm him. Mr. Tate was right. Atticus disengaged himself and looked at me. What do you mean? Well, itd be sort of like shootin a mockingbird, wouldnt it? Chapter 31 Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough. When they finally saw him, why he hadnt done any of those things . . . Atticus, he was real nice. . . . His hands were unde r my chin, pulling up the cover, tucking it around me. just about people are, Scout, when you finally see them. He turned out the light and went into Jems room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.