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10 Cards in this Set
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"He wore blue linen shorts tat buttoned to his shirt, his hair was snow white and stuck to his head like duck-fluff; he was a year my senior but I towered over him. As he told the old tale his blue eyes would lighten and daken; his laugh was sudden and happy; he habitually pulled at a cowlick in the center of his forehead."
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Dill
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"The house was low, was once white with a deep front porch and green shutters , but had long ago darkened to the color of the slate-gray yard around it. Rain-rotted shingles drooped the eaves of the veranda; oak trees kept the sun away."
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The Radley Place
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"In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square."
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Maycomb
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"She was all angles and all bones; she was nearsighted; she squinted; her hand was wide as a bed slat and twice as hard."
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Calpurnia
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"People moved slowly then. They ambled across the square, shuffled in and out of the stores around it, took their time about everything. A day was twenty-four hour long but seemed longer. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County. But it was a time of vague optimism for some of the people. Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fea itself."
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Depression-era south, Maycomb in particular
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"She was a Graham from Montgomery; Atticus met her when he was first elected to the state legislature. He was middle-aged then, she was fifteen years his junior."
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Scout and Jem's mother
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"Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom. People said he existed, but Jem and I had never seen him. People said he went out at night when the moon was down, and peeped in windows. When people's azaleas froze in a cold snap, it was because he had breathed on them."
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Boo Radley
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"He never spoke to us. When he passed we would look at the ground and say 'Good morning, sir,' and he would cough in reply."
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Mr. Radley
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"Jem and I found our father satisfactory: he played with us, read to us, and treated us wth courteous detachment."
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Atticus
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"He dined on raw squirrels and any cats he ould catch, that's why his hands were bloodstained-if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time."
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Jem's description of Boo Radley
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