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To Kill a Mockingbird Key Themes and Quotes
- Good Parenting
- "Don't matter who they are,
anybody sets foot in this house's
yo' comp'ny"
- "Atticus Finch is the same
in his house as he is on the
public streets."
- "if I didn't I couldn't hold my head up in the town"
- "If this thing's hushed up it'll be a simple denial
to Jem of the way I've tried to raise him."
- "Don't matter who they are,
anybody sets foot in this house's
yo' comp'ny"
- Bad Parenting
- "Ain't no snot-nosed slut of a schoolteacher ever
born c'n make me do nothin'!"
- "His curtness stung me."
- "a little bantam cock of a man"
- "like the playhouse of
an insane child"
- "You goddamn whore, I'll kill ya"
- "Ain't no snot-nosed slut of a schoolteacher ever
born c'n make me do nothin'!"
- Empathy and Understanding
- "You never really understand a person... until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
- "Jem, she's old and ill. You can't hold her responsible for her actions."
- "That Calpurnia led a modest double life never dawned on me."
- "Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to
people about what they were interested in"
- "It's like bein' a caterpillar in a cocoon"
- "it's because he wants to stay inside"
- "Well, it'd be sort of like shootin' a mockingbird, wouldn't it?"
- "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them."
- "You never really understand a person... until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
- Racism
- "it ain't your fault if Uncle Atticus is a nigger-lover"
- "Negroes worshipped in it on Sundays and white men gambled in it on weekdays."
- "She owned a bright green square Brick and a black chauffeur,
both kept in an unhealthy state of tidiness"
- "You know what we want. Get aside from the door, Mr Finch."
- "just in-betweens, don't belong anywhere"
- "I seen that black nigger yonder ruttin' on my Mayella!"
- "Jedge, I've asked this county for fifteen years to clean out that nest down yonder."
- "Mr Finch, if you was a nigger like me,
you'd be scared, too."
- "You felt sorry for her, you felt sorry for her?"
- "Cry about the hell white people give coloured folk, without even
stopping to think that they're people, too."
- "that all Negroes lie, that all Negroes are basically immoral beings..."
- "it ain't your fault if Uncle Atticus is a nigger-lover"
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