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22 Cards in this Set
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“Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it"
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-Narrator speaking(1)
-Addressing Reader -Scout is setting up story for the reader—describing Maycomb -She is foreshadowing a change in Maycomb—she is also saying that Maycomb is really boring |
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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 hours long but seemed longer...”
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-Narrator speaking(1)
-Addressing Reader -Still beginning with Scout setting up the story -She is hinting to the reader that change is coming to the boring, old town of Maycomb—saying that nothing “scary ever happens |
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“One night, in an excessive spurt of high spirits, the boys backed around the square in a borrowed flivver...”
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-Narrator speaking(1)
-Addressing reader -Scout is telling Dill about Boo Radley -They think very lowly of Boo, and that there are many false rumors that have been spread throughout Maycomb |
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“There goes the meanest man ever God blew breath into”
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-Calpurnia speaking
-Addressing speaking to herself/Scout -When Scout is still talking about the Radleys -Showing how cruel and wicked even an educated elder thinks the Radleys are, at least Mr. Radley |
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“If I didn’t have to stay I’d leave. Jem, that damn lady says Atticus’ been teaching me to read and for him to stop it—“
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-Scout speaking(2)
-Addressing Jem -After Scout annoyed Miss. Fisher and was out at recess -Shows that Scout is persistent, and doesn’t give up a fight for what she knows is right—also she is defending her father |
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“Son, I can’t tell you what you’re going to be—an engineer, a lawyer, or a portrait painter. You’ve perpetrated near libel here in the front yard. We’ve got to disguise this fellow”
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-Atticus speaking(8)
-Addressing Jem -After Jem and Scout borrow snow, and make a snowman that looks like their neighbor, Mr. Avery -Shows Atticus’s way with words in a compliment but asking Jem and Scout to change the snowman’s looks |
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“When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don’t make a production of it..."
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-Atticus speaking(9)
-Addressing Uncle Jack -After Uncle Jack doesn’t respond to when Scout asks him what a “whore lady” is -Uncle Jack needs to learn how to become a better parent—shows Atticus’s great parenting and how he will not be “the ruination of the family” as Francis said |
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“But do you think I could face my children otherwise? You know what’s going to happen as well as I do, Jack, and I hope and pray I can get Jem and Scout through it..."
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-Atticus speaking(9)
-Addressing Uncle Jack -When Atticus tells him the reason for defending Tom Robinson -Shows that Atticus is an honest guy and has to be fair to everyone or he would become ashamed |
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"Our father didn’t do anything. He worked in an office, not in a drugstore. Atticus did not drive a dump-truck for the county, he was not a sheriff, he did not farm, work in a garage, or do anything that could possibly arouse the admiration of anyone”
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-Narrator speaking(10)
-Addressing reader -Beginning of Chapter 10 Scout starts by telling the reader that Atticus was old -Shows that they respect him but they don’t find him to be cool |
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“I’d rather you shoot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird”
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-Atticus speaking(10)
-Addressing Jem -When they get their air rifles for Christmas -Sin to kill a mockingbird—Atticus is not interested them in killing anything that harms anyone and would rather them shoot at tin cans |
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“I think maybe he put his gun down when he realized that God had given him an unfair advantage over most living things..."
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-Miss. Maudie speaking(10)
-Addressing Scout and Jem -After Atticus shoots Tim Robinson Scout asks Miss. Maudie about Atticus -Shows that Atticus has a love for everything and when he has an unfair advantage over something he loves he makes the advantage disappear |
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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 speaking(11)
-Addressing Jem -When Mrs. Dubose dies -Telling him what true courage is and that Mrs. Dubose was brave |
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"You ain’t got no business bringin’ white chillin here—they got their church, we got our’n. It is our church, ain’t it, Miss Cal”
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-Lula (black woman at church)(12) speaking
-Addressing Calpurnia -When Calpurnia bring Jem and Scout to First Purchase Church since Atticus was gone -Showing that blacks (at least some of them) want to be separate from whites |
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“Anything fit to say at the table’s fit to say in front of Calpurnia. She knows what she means to this family”
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-Atticus speaking(16)
-Addressing Aunt Alexandra -After she said don’t talk about people despising Negroes in front of one -Calpurnia is a true member of the family |
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“So it took an eight-year-old child to bring ‘em to their senses, didn’t it? That proves something--- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they are still human”
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-Atticus speaking(16)
-Addressing breakfast table (Jem, Scout, Dill, and Aunt Alexandra) -When they are eating breakfast the morning of the trial -Shows that Scout has true power to make people think about what they are doing before they do it |
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“The Colored balcony ran along three walls of the courtroom like a second-story veranda, and from it we could see everything”
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-Narrator speaking(16)
-Addressing reader -When they first go into the court room with Reverend Sykes -Shows you a different perspective on things when you get a bird’s eye view |
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"Well, Mr. Finch didn’t act that way to Mayella and old man Ewell when he cross-examined them. The way that man called him ‘boy’ all the time an ‘sneered at him, an’ looked around at the jury every time he answered---“
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-Dill speaking(19)
-Addressing Scout -When Dill comes out of court crying—Dolphus Raymond gives him Coke -Shows significance of the discrimination of blacks from whites—people behave more harshly towards blacks if they are white in Maycomb (in most cases) |
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“We’re making a step—it’s just a baby-step, but it’s a step"
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-Mrs. Maudie speaking(22)
-Addressing Jem, Scout and Dill -When Mrs. Maudie is trying to comfort Jem and Scout the day after the court case -Its showing that Maycomb is starting to let blacks become equals in society |
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“I wish Bob Ewell wouldn’t chew tobacco”
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-Atticus speaking(23)
-Addressing family -His response to family on the question of what happened when Bob Ewell stopped you on the corner -It shows that Atticus is not a violent man or a complainer—it also shows that he would rather take the blows for the court case rather than anyone else take them |
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“After all, if Aunty could be a lady at a time like this, so could I”
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-Narrator (Scout’s mind) speaking(24)
-Addressing reader -When Atticus tells Scout and Aunt Alexandra that Tom has been killed—during Aunt Alexandra’s tea party -Aunt Alexandra is very lady like and knows how to persevere through harsh times—also shows that Scout is wanting to become like Aunt Alexandra which is showing that she is becoming a true lady |
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“So many things had happened to us, Boo Radley was the least of our fears"
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-Scout (narrator) speaking(26)
-Addressing Reader -Scout is recalling the things that had happened when she was afraid of the Radley house—still before Bob Ewell attacks them—school starts-current events week |
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“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”
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-Narrator speaking(31)
-Addressing reader -When she drops Boo off at his house -She gets a different perspective of the life of Boo—obvious-we worked on it for homework once |
