English 2 Final Exam review QUOTES

“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.”

• Scout

• Atticus

• Jem

• Aunt Alexandra

“I wanted 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 you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.”

• Atticus

• Scout

• Miss Maudie

• Jem

“It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.”

• Dill

• Uncle Jack

• Jem

• Scout

“The thing is, you can scrub Walter Cunningham till he shines, you can put him in shoes and a new suit, but he’ll never be like Jem. Besides, there’s a drinking streak in that family a mile wide. Finch women aren’t interested in that sort of people.”

• Miss Maudie

• Scout

• Aunt Alexandra

• Mrs. Dubose

“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?”

• Jem

• Zeebo

• Scout

• Calpurnia

“I thought I wanted to be a lawyer but I ain’t so sure now!”

• Scout

• Jem

• Atticus

• Boo

"The very idea, didn’t you know his nickname was Ol‘ One-Shot when he was a boy? Why, down at the Landing when he was coming up, if he shot fifteen times and hit fourteen doves he’d complain about wasting ammunition.”

• Boo Radley

• Miss Maudie

• Miss Caroline

• Mrs. Dubose

"DAMN MY EGGS—DAMN ALL THE EGGS THAT EVER WAS!"

• Mama

• Walter

• Travis

• Ruth

"I’m waiting to hear how you be your father’s son. Be the man he was … Your wife say she going to destroy your child. And I’m waiting to hear you talk like him and say we a people who give children life, not who destroys them"

• Walter

• Travis

• Ruth

• Mama

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"Let’s face it, baby, your heritage is nothing but a bunch of raggedy-assed spirituals and some grass huts!"

• Walter

• George Murchison

• Asagi

• Beneatha