To Kill a Mockingbird: Important Quotations Explained

Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop . . . [s]omehow it was hotter then . . . bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. Men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. This quotation, from Chapter 1, is Scout’s introductory description of Maycomb. “We have nothing to fear but fear itself” is the most famous line from Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first inaugural speech, made after the 1932 presidential election. 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. This important snippet of conversation from Chapter 3 finds Atticus giving Scout the crucial piece of moral advice that governs her development for the rest of the novel. “Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” A boy trudged down the sidewalk dragging a fishing pole behind him.

Atticus To Kill A Mockingbird: DETAILED CHARACTER ANALYSIS by Harper Lee Free Study Guide: To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee - Free BookNotes Previous Page | Table of Contents | Next Page Downloadable / Printable Version Aunt Alexandra Aunt Alexandra is Atticus’ sister, who used to stay at the ancestral Finch landing before she arrives at Atticus’ house to stay. She is very unlike Atticus in all respects, and the children do not take a liking to her in the beginning. For a start, her reason for coming is to bring some ‘feminine’ influence to the house, and that fact itself is negated by the children since (according to them), Calpurnia is a sufficient feminine influence. Aunt Alexandra, initially comes across as a cold, unfeeling and an unloving person. But even Aunt Alexandra comes down from her presumptuous pedestal by the end of the novel. Boo Radley Arthur Radley, called Boo by the children, is an enigma in himself. Bob Ewell Even after winning the case, he continues to torment Tom’s widow Helen. Mayella Ewell Tom Robinson The Black Community

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