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To Kill a Mockingbird : Themes - Coggle Diagram
To Kill a Mockingbird : Themes
Family
Scout
"Somehow, if I fought Cecil I would let Atticus down" - pg 103
Jem
"Not yet son, do as I tell you. Run Now. Take care of Scout, you hear? Don't let her out of your sight." - pg 92
"She's coming along though, Jem's getting older and she follows his example a good bit now." - pg 117
''Look it ain't worth it Jem, a lickin' hurts but it doesn't last. You'll get your head blown off Jem. Please." - pg 75
Class and Social Hierarchies
Tom Robinson
"Your Father's no better than the -------- and trash he works for!" - pg 47
The Jury couldn't possibly be expected to take Tom Robinson's word against the Ewells" - pg 117
The Cumminghams
"There's some folks who don't eat like us, but you ain't called to contradict them at the diner table" - pg 32
"Jem's nose wrinkled, 'Are we as poor as the Cumminghams?" - pg 27
Courage
Atticus
"Simply because we were licked 100 years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win" - pg 101
"I want you to see what real courage is, instead of
getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his
hand. It's when you know you're licked before you
begin, but you begin anyway and see through it no
matter what - pg 149
Mrs Dubose
"According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew" - pg 149
"Mrs Dubose was a morphine addict, she took it as a pain killer for years. The doctor put her on it. She'd have spent the rest of her life on it and died without so much agony, but she was too contrary." - pg 147
Empathy
Calpurnia
"'There's some folks who don't eat like us,' She whispered fiercely, 'but you ain't called to contradict them at the table when they don't'" - pg 32
" Hush your mouth! Don't matter who they are, anybody who sets foot in this house's yo' comp'ny, and don't you let me catch you remarkin' on their ways like you was so high and mighty!" - pg 33
Atticus
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view" - pg 39
"Before Mr.Cummingham left he said, 'Mr Finch, I don't know when I'll ever be able to pay you"
'Let that be the least of your worries, Walter'" - pg 27
Innocence and Growing up
Scout
"In this matter we were lucky to have Dill. He played the character parts formerly thrust onto me. The ape in Tarzan, Mr. Crabtree in The Rover Boys, Mr. Damon in Tom Swift - pg 11
"Yeah, don't say anything about it yet, but we're gonna get married as soon as we're big enough. He asked me last summer." - pg 109
Dill Harris
"As he told us the old tale his blue eyes would lighten and darken, his laugh was sudden and happy; he habitually pulled at a cowlick in the center of his forehead." - pg 9
"Thus we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies." - pg 10