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Maycomb was an old town, but it was a
tired old town when I first knew it
There was no hurry, for there was
nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no
money to buy it
a malevolent phantom
tyrannical presence & our battles were
epic and one-sided
You felt sorry for her, you felt sorry for
her? Mr. Gilmer
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5
Purpose
Setting
9
6
Describing Boo
Describing Calpurnia
176
152
Themes
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you never really understand a person until
you consider things from his point of
view until you climb into his skin and
walk around in it- Atticus
Page
124
169
Purpose
Relates to theme of need for understanding from others POV.
Scout struggles, with varying degrees of success, to put
Atticus's advice into practice and to live with sympathy and
understanding toward others. At the end of the book, she
succeeds in comprehending Boo Radley's perspective,
fulfilling Atticus's advice in Chapter 3 and providing the novel
with an optimistic ending despite the considerable darkness
of the plot.
The comparisons of real courage / relates to the theme of
courage
251
270
169
221
Atticus
were making a step its just a babystep, but its a step Miss Maudie
shadow of a beginning Atticus
if I didnt I couldnt hold up my head in
town, I couldnt represent this county in
legislature, I couldnt even tell you or Jem
not do something again.
When Atticus turn away from Mayella he
looked like his stomach hurt
238 &
245
Jem
Quotes
Theres four kinds of folks in the world.
Theres ordinary kind like us and the
neighbours, theres kind like the
Cunninghams out in the woods, the
kind like the Ewells down the dump,
and the Negroes.
Pages
249
Purpose
Jems view on people
Jems realization that Boo knows him therefore feel confused &
unexpected
Scout
Quotes
I think theres one kind of folks. Folks.
Entailments seemed all right enough for
living-room talk
Page
249
170
&172
Purpose
Scouts view on people
At first, Scout didnt understand the mob scene but later realised
what had happened
Mayella Ewell
Page
304
Purpose
In the book, the mockingbirds would be Tom Robinson, Boo
Radley
197
197
Describing Mayella
199
198
200
200
Language Techniques
Quote
they slipped down, and he dropped them
in the street, in the silence, I heard them
crack.
read most of my First Reader and the
stock-market quotations from The Mobile
Register aloud
flicked flies, sweltering shade, soft,
sweat, sweet
like soft tea-cakes with frostings of sweat
and sweet talcum
Page
106
Purpose
Use of punctuations to slow time, dramatize & separate little
actions into slow motion
19
Show humour/whimsy
106
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307