TKaM Part One Quotations

“That boy’s yo’ comp’ny and if he wants to eat up the table cloth you let him, you hear?”

• Boo Radley

• Atticus Finch

• Sherriff Tate

• Calpurnia

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“So you brought that dirty little sister of yours, did you?”

• Miss Caroline

• Miss Dubose

• Calpurnia

• Mrs. Merriweather

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“Look, it ain’t worth it, Jem. A lickin’ hurt but it doesn’t last. You’ll get your head shot off, Jem. Please...”

• Dill

• Jem Finch

• Scout Finch

• Francis

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.”

• Atticus Finch

• Judge Taylor

• Sherriff Tate

• Miss Caroline

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“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