Emerging Themes in To Kill A Mockingbird

The quote below supports which emerging theme in the novel?

You aren't really a n****-lover, then, are you?"

"I certainly am. I do my best to love everybody... I'm hard put, sometimes—baby, it's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you." (11.107-109)

• Growing up

• Femininity

• Prejudice

• Education

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

After reading the quote below, infer the meaning from the passage below.

"Lula stopped, but she said, "You ain't got no business bringin' white chillun here—they got their church, we got our'n. It is our church, ain't it, Miss Cal?"

… When I looked down the pathway again, Lula was gone. In her place was a solid mass of colored people.

One of them stepped from the crowd. It was Zeebo, the garbage collector. "Mister Jem," he said, "we're mighty glad to have you all here. Don't pay no 'attention to Lula." (12.48-52)

• It shows how Jem and Scout are not welcome by the members of First Purchase Church.

• This is the first time Jem and Scout experience racism, they feel like they feel like they are the objects of someone else's racism.

• Lula is a colored woman from First Purchase is very warm and welcoming to Jem and Scout.

• Lula echoes the feelings of the rest of the congregation from First Purchase church.

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

This quote supports which of the following themes from the novel?

"Scout, I'm tellin' you for the last time, shut your trap or go home—I declare to the Lord you're gettin' more like a girl every day!" With that, I had no option but to join them. "(6.24)

• Innocence

• Prejudice

• Femininity

• Education

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

After reviewing the quote below, infer the meaning from the text.

"[Calpurnia] seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl. (12.8)"

• Scout is only spending time with Calpurnia because Dill has a new girlfriend.

• Jem is relieved that Scout has finally stopped tagging along with he and Dill.

• Calpurnia is happy to have Scout in the kitchen because she is lonely.

• Scout realizes that being a girl actually involves having positive traits instead of lacking them.

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Use the quote below to determine the emerging theme in the novel.

"There's some folks who don't eat like us," she whispered fiercely, "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?"

"He ain't company, Cal, he's just a Cunningham-"

• Femininity

• Prejudice

• Growing Up

• The Mockingbird

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The quote below supports which of the following themes,

"Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was." (13.28)

• Growing up

• Education

• Prejudice

• Innocence

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2