TKAM Chp. 1-3 . Quotes

“I maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that. He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out.”

• Scout

• Jem

• Atticus

• Calpurnia

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“You’re shamin’ him, Miss Caroline. Walter hasn’t got a quarter at home to bring you, and you can’t use any stovewood.”

• Scout

• Miss Caroline

• Calpurnia

• Jem

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“There’s some folks who don’t eat like us, but you ain’t called on to contradict ’em at the table when they don’t. That boy’s yo’ comp’ny and if he wants to eat up the table cloth you let him, you hear?"

• Scout

• Atticus

• Walter

• Calpurnia

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“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."

• Jem

• Dill

• Atticus

• Mrs. DuBose

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases. In your case, the law remains rigid. So to school you must go.”

• Miss Caroline

• Atticus

• Scout

• Jem

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“Through all the head-shaking, quelling of nausea and Jem-yelling, I had heard another sound, so low I could not have heard it from the sidewalk. Someone inside the house was laughing.”

• Jem

• Dill

• Scout

• Atticus

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em. But remember. It's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

• Jem

• Miss Maudie

• Scout

• Atticus

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"You're starting off on the wrong foot in every way, my dear. Hold out your hand."

• Calpurnia

• Miss Caroline

• Scout

• Atticus

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"He'll probably come out after you when he sees you in the yard, then Scout 'n' me'll jump on him and hold him down till we can tell him we ain't gonna hurt him."

• Jem

• Dill

• Scout

• Cecil Jacobs

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Now you tell your father not to teach you any more. It's best to begin reading with a fresh mind. You tell him I'll take over from here and try to undo the damage."

• Miss Caroline

• Calpurnia

• Miss Maudie

• Aunt Alexandra

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3