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49 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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Who is the aurthur?
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Harper Lee
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Who narrates the story?
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Scout Finch
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Is this book narrated in the first person?
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Yes
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What time does the book take place?
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1933 to 1935
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Where does the book take place?
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Maycomb, Alabama
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What is the major conflict in the story?
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The childhood innocence of Scout and Jem are threatened by incidents that expose them to the evil side of human nature. Mainly the guilty verdict in the Tom Robbinson trail and the vengence of Bob Ewell.
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What is the climax of the story?
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The jury finding Tom Robinson guilty.
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Who is Scout?
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Narrator and protagonist
girl, about 9 years old at the start of the book, tomboy, faith in the goodness of people, lives with her father Atticus, brother Jem, and black cook Culprina. |
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Who is Atticus Finch?
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Lawyer, Scout's father, strong sense of morality and justice, he has a dry sense of humor
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Who is Jem?
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Scout's older brother, 4 years older than Scout,
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"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing"
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Scout
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"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it"
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Atticus to Scout
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"You are too young to understand it...but sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a wisky bottle in the hand of-oh, of your father"
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Miss Maudie to Scout
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"There are just some kind of men who- who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results"
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Miss Maudie
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"When a child ask you something, answer him, for goodnness sake. But don't make a production of it."
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Atticus Finch
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"Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simplu muddles 'em"
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Atticus Finch
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"I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year"
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Scout as narrator
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"Why reasonable people go stark raving amd when anything involving a Negro comes up is something I don't pretend to understand"
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Atticus
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"Shoot all the bluejay's you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."
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Atticus to Scout
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"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy"
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Miss Maudie to Scout
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"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a persons conscience"
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Atticus Finch
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"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."
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Atticus Finch
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"It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do"
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Atticus Finch to Jem about Ms Dubose
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"So it took an eight year old child to bring 'em to their senses. That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped simply because they're still human."
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Atticus Finch
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"I think I'll be a clown when I grow up"
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Dill
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"I don't know how they could convict Tom Robinson, but they did it. They've done it before and they did it tonight and they'll do it again and when they do it - seems that only children weep"
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Atticus Finch
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"I think there's just one kind of folks, folks"
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Scout
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"The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be any color of the rainbow"
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Atticus Finch to Jem
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"As you grow older , you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life"
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Atticus Finch to Jem
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"If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other?"
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Jem to Scout
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"I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time"
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Jem to Scout
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"Let the dead bury the dead this time"
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Sherriff Tate to Atticus
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"They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect of their opinions"
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Atticus
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"What I meant was, if Atticus Finch drank until he was drunk he wouldn't be as hard as some men are at their best"
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Miss Maudie
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I'm not a very good man, sir, but I am the sherrif of Maycomb County"
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Sherrif Tate to Atticus
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"Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not aattracting attention with it"
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Atticus
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"Atticus don't ever do anything to Jem and me in the house that he don't do in the yard"
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Scout
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Atticus fince is the same in his house as he is on the public streets"
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Scout
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"I'm simply defending a Negro. There's been some high talk around town to the effect that I shouldn't do much about defending this man"
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Atticus
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"If I didn't I couldn't hold up my head in town, I couldn't represent my county in legislature, I couldn't even tell you or jem not to do something again"
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Atticus
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"He can do plenty of things...He can make somebody's will so airtight you can't break it."
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Miss Maudie
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"Didn't you know your daddy's the best shot in this county?"
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Heck Tate to Jem and Scout
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"One of these days when she wasn't looking I'd go off and drown myself in Barkers Eddy and then she'd be sorry"
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Scout
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"Cootie"
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Ms Caroline when she saw a bug
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"Pass the damn ham please"
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Scout to Jack
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"Nigger lover"
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Alexandra about Atticus
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"What did your father see in the window, the crime of rape of the best defense to it"
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Atticus to Mayella
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"Hey Boo"
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Scout to Boo
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"When they finally saw him, why he hadn't done any of these things"
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Scout to Atticus
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