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FIFTH PERIOD STUDY GUIDE Hello, lovelies. All you need is push the "Edit" button (top right), then find your name and write the **quote** , page number , who said it , and why it's important to the book as a whole (about a paragraph on the importance part). Make a copy before saving, in case it gets lost. Finally, push the "Save" button above. If something really messes up, push the "History" button above, and you should be able to go back to the last time it was saved. Enjoy! JS

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AMELIA - PGS. 3-20 **Jem said this quote when Scout, Dill and him first started to become interasted with Boo Radley. They were trying to get Boo out of the house and Jem was daired to go up to the Radleys house and touch it. He was to scared but finally Dill and Scout got him to do it. They were saying what they were going to do if Boo came out after Jem. At this part all of them are scared of Boo and think he is a crazy man who eats raw squirls. But they were curious about him still and wanted to get to know him. This quote tells how they are thinking off Boo at the moment.**
 * Amelia: Page 20"He'll probablly 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." **

ANNA - PGS. 21-39 page 30 " First of all, he said, if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you will get a long better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. " "Sir?" "--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."

Atticus said this quote and he is talking to Scout. What was happening at the time of this quote was when Scout came home from school and tells Atticus that she doesn't like the teacher, Miss Caroline, and that she had said that Atticus should not have taught her how to read. Atticus is telling Scout that she should try to look at things from Miss Caroline's point of view. The reason this is important to the entire book is because the whole book is about how you should look at situations from other people's point of view to find the truth. During the trial, Atticus tries to make the jury and everyone else in the courtroom look through his point of view to make Tom Robinson go free but also to show how discriminatory this town really is. If you look through other people's points of view, you can find out how they might be looking at a situation and you can understand them better.

BURKEY - PGS. 40-57 pg. 46 "Atticus Finch is the same in his house as he is on the streets." Maudie said it to Scout This conversation is a bit after playing the Radley game. It's when Jem and Dill excluded Scout. Theme: There are sides of people made to fit any box. In Maycomb, people whose behavior would not be expected on the streets made a side of themselves to fit a box. Society does not allow certain things (ex. Atticus defending Tom), and will strike back with a vengeance if you don't fit in. Alexandra has mastered this side as she wears her mask in front of ladies when she has heard terrible news. Dolphus Raymond is kind to blacks, but gives society the excuse that he is a drunk and that's why he does what he does. In this book it is shown that you really cannot fit in to the boxes unless you act a different way on the streets. Atticus stands up to this, and like Maudie says, he is the same person everywhere. Society is strong though, and one person changing does not make everyone become truthful.

CHRIS - PGS. 57-74 pg.58 "Like somebody was readin my mind... like somebody could tell what I was gonna do. Can't anybody tell what i'm gonna do lest they know me. Can they, Scout?" Jem said it. It's important to the book as a whole because we know that Boo was the person who stiched up the jeans and also he made the figurines of Jem and Scout with great detail. And Jem also mentions that that someone would have to know him in order to me able to know what he was thinking, which in this case is him going back to the house to get his pants. This to me symbolizes how Boo paid so much attention to them and watched over them in a way as if they were his real children (as we later discussed that in a way he was like their surrogate father). This connected to the theme of "Don't judge someone unless you know him" and they think that Boo is just someone monster but he acually does nice things for them and actually watches over them enough to know somewhat about them

CHRISTINE - PGS. 74-89 **pg.89 "I scurried to my room and went to bed. Uncle Jack was a prince of a fellow not to let me down. But I never figured out how Atticus knew I was listening, and it was not until many years later that I realized he wanted me to hear every word said. "**

===<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">This quote showed how Atticus tries to help let his children learn the lessons of life, he wants them to understand what is going on. He wants them to learn more about the court case and how you cant judge on the stereotype and appearence of things because things are usually not what they seem. This quote relates to the book in a whole because one of the books main ideas is learning lessons and not judging. This also ties into racism.(not judging by white or black) === IFEANYI - PGS. 89-106 "Naw Scout, it's something you wouldn't understand. Atticus is real old, but I wouldn't care if he couldn't do anything-I wouldn't care if he couldn't do a blessed thing "..."Atticus is a gentleman, just like me." page 99 Jem said it right after Atticus shot the dog. This is important to the book because you start seeing how Jem wants to be like Atticus more. Throughout the book he tries more and more to be like Attticus. Atticus seems very responsible and adult like so this may have made him grow up faster. It also shows some about his character that he actually cares more about his dad being a gentleman then his dad being good at things. A few of the things Atticus does well as a parent he doesn't notice because he is just being himself. He sort of unconsciously, (at least they never tell us he does it on purpose), leads by example. JARED - PGS. 107-124

KATHERINE - PGS. 125-142 Aunt Alexandra, in underlining the moral of young Sam Merriweather's suidcide, said it was caused by a morbid streak in the family. Let a sixteen-year-old girl giggle in the choir and Aunt Alexandra would say "It just goes to you that the Penfield women are flighty." Pg. 129 It shows you more about the social system in Macomb. How people are judged by what other people in their family have done.

LEAH - PGS. 143-160 pg. 157 "So it took an eight year old child to bring 'em to their senses, didn't it? Atticus said. "That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human... you children last night made Walter Cunningham stand in my shoes for a minute. That was enough." Atticus said this to the table. This quote was said the morning after they got back from the jail cell, when a mob of people came to hurt/kill tom, and atticus's children and dill show up and save the day.

This quote is important to the book as a whole for a few reasons. 1: it ties into theme of how children are innocent, and why that's such a good thing. Here, scout is just being her old, innocent self... and it pays off. When it was men against men, all they could think about were there sides or reasons, but when this innocent child who has such a clear and sweet/naiive perspective comes in and talks to them it brings them back to reality and reminds them that there are reprocutions to fighting, and everyday decisions. 2: This quote shows how much Atticus believes that there is good in everybody... he thinks that because scout did stop them it shows their good side, a side that he sometimes relies to much on no matter how dominate it may be. 3: it ties into the theme of 'you don't really know someone until you stand in their shoes'. Walter didn't really understand why atticur was there, or why it mattered, or what could come of this, until he saw what it would be like to be where atticus was at this very moment... what it would be like if it were his kids there, watching this, being a part of this... and when he understood a little better he backed of and realized his mistakes

<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">//LIZZIE - PGS. 161-178//

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">//-"They don't belong anywhere. Colored folks won't have 'em because they're half white; white folks won't have 'em 'cause they're colored, so they're just in-betweens, don't belong anywhere....."// ======

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">//Jem says this quote. During it, Jem, Scout and Dill are outside the courtroom waiting for the trial to start, and they are talking about Dolphus Raymond's "mixed children" who are pushed in-between the two groups, neither of which will take them because they have traces of the others in them, which was something that wasn't accepted. I think that this quote is important because, as well as enforcing just how racist Maycomb was (so racist that little kids who couldn't control where they were born were pushed away) it also ties into anidea that is repeated many times: that people had to fit into one of the socially accepted groups, or else they were outcasts. For example, Boo Radley doesn't fit in, and is judged and made up to be a scary and creepy person, (even by Jem and Scout) just because he prefers to stay inside his house, Scout doesn't fit into the normal stereotypical girl image with her big opinions and overalls, Mayella, who doesn't have any friends because she is different, (living in a house with a father who beats her up and no mom), and even Atticus, who is one of the only non-racist adults in Maycomb and who can't quite fit into society because he defended Tom. These people were discriminated against and judged because they either had different opinions than the rest of society or just didn't fit into the, as Jem says later "five types of folks".// ======

MADDIE - PGS. 178-194

(((MALEA - PGS. 195-211 ** Speakers: ** ** Dill ** and **Scout** . They are discussing why Dill had began to cry during the court case while Mr. Gilmer was questioning Tom Robinson. This is right before Dolphus Raymond comes and talks to them, and shares a secret about himself.
 * “…He’s supposed to act that way, Dill, he was cross-” **
 * “He didn’t act that way when-” **
 * “Dill, those were his own witnesses.” **
 * “Well, Mr. Finch didn’t act that way to Mayella and old man Ewell when he cross-examined them. They way that man called him ‘boy’ all the time an’ sneered at him, an’ looked around at the jury every time he answered-” **
 * // “Well, Dill, he’s just a Negro.”  //**
 * “I don’t care one speck, it ain’t right, somehow it ain’t right to do ‘em that way. Hasn’t anybody got any business talkin’ like that-it just makes me sick.” **
 * pg. 199 ** This quote is important to the book because, the reader gets to see someone other than Atticus display their frustration with the reality of what Maycomb County really was. We see Dill, who portrays a large portion of Scout and Jem’s childhood, reduced to tears due to Mr Gilmer’s rude nature towards Tom. He has realizes the evils of the racism living within Maycomb, and sees how it is acknowledged tacitly but not talked about openly or with any room for debate. Seeing a grown man being demeaned and mistreated because his skin was brown, took its toll on Dill and his view on reality. I guess that means that this quote ties in with **SOMETIMES, THINGS AREN’T ALWAYS WHAT THEY APPEAR OR WHAT WE MAKE THEM UP TO BE** as an important theme in this book. Just like how Scout and Jem made Arthur ‘Boo’ Radley up to be a horrible, scary, squirrel-devouring monster, and we later find out that he’s a fragile, aging, serene and simple man, Dill negatively discovers that the ‘perfect little Maycomb County’ isn’t as clean and pure as he thought it was. He realizes how sick racism is and how evil it can make people. He sees how the same men and women he trusted and believed in could be so horrible and sick and could be transformed from what he had always known them to be, all because of Bob and Mayella Ewell, a black man, Tom Robinson, and an unjust court system.-JENNIFERSFAVORITESTUDENTMALEA)))

MAX W. - PGS. 212-227

Pg. 217 “…havin’ a gun around’s an invitation to somebody to shoot you.” Jem said it, and he was quoting Atticus. This represents the idea of killing a mockingbird. The mockingbird is harmless, so killing it is wrong. By Atticus not having a gun, he is taking the role of the mockingbird. This also represents threat (for example), Bob Ewell took the threat and punishment that came with his mistreatment of Mayella and dumped it on Tom Robinson. In this example Bob Ewell is the person who symbolically has the gun, he is the attacker. In response to his position as the attacker (now attacking Scout and Jem), he is killed by Arthur Radley.

NICK - PGS. 227-247 pg. 233 “Folks in this town think they’re doing right, I mean. Now far be it from me to say who, but some of them in this town thought they were doing the right thing a while back, but all they did was stir them up. That’s all they did. Might’ve looked like the right thing to do at the time, I’m not sure I don’t know, I’m not read in that field, but sulky…dissatisfied… I tell you if my Sophy’d kept it up another day I’d have let her go. It’s never entered that the only reason I keep her is because this depression’s on and she needs her dollar and quarter every week she can get it.”

“His food doesn’t stick going down, does it?” -Mrs. Merriweather/ Miss Maudie

 This quote was said during the missionary circle at the Finch’s house I think it ties in with Atticus trying to do something helpful and people criticizing him for that. I mean Atticus was just trying to be helpful, and Mrs. Merriweather and everyone know that Tom should have been innocent, but people are still racist. This happens all throughout the book. I would understand if Mrs. Merriweather’s servant was all upset about the case. What really strikes me is that she says it in Atticus’ own house. Throughout the book people are always talking about Atticus behind his back, and even in his own house!

Pg 254 -- “High above us in the darkness a solitary mocker poured out his repertoire in blissful unawareness of whose tree he sat in, plunging from the shrill kee, kee of the sunflower bird to the irascible qua-ack of a bluejay, to the sad lament of Poor Will, Poor Will, Poor Will.” -Scout is thinking this while she and Jem walk to the school for Halloween. This quote ties into the book, as a whole because it has to do with the theme of being aware is very difficult and hard to acquire. This bird doesn’t know the “dangers” of being in the Radley tree or being in a bad situation. Throughout the book Scout and Jem have difficulties coming to acquire racism in Maycomb and how it isn’t as safe of a place they thought. Knowing these things would be extremely hard to understand. They want to hold onto what they already know because gaining awareness is hard. Jem especially doesn’t want to become aware and this is shown when Scout tries to tell him the trial is like Hitler and Tom Robinson is like the Jews. He ignores this because becoming aware would cause him to think, and awareness is not something easily gained. Jem and Scout are very much like this unaware mockingbird.
 * <span style="color: rgb(255,0,0);">RACHEL **<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0);"> - PGS. 247-264

<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0);"><span style="color: rgb(64,64,64); line-height: normal; border-collapse: collapse;">"Pg. 281 - "Atticus, he was real nice.." his hands were under my chin, pulling up the cover, tucking it around me. " Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them." The first part of this quote is said by Scout and the last part is said by Atticus. This is happening while Atticus is putting Scout to sleep the night they were attacked by Bob Ewell. i think this quote is important because it shows how you shouldn't judge people until you know them. like the obvious example would be Boo Radley. Scout had never seen him in her life, and she judged him as being this scary man, and had only heard rumors about him. But once she finally saw him for the first time she saw him as a sweet and frightened man. i think that this quote is also in this book in the form of racism. if someone is racist (as many of the people in this book are as we found out during the trial), than they will judge people just because they're of a certain race. "Oh he's black so he's gonna act like this. she's white so she's gonna act like that." but you can't just go with what that race's stereotype is. You have to get to know them before you can judge them. " SAM - PGS. 265-281

<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0);">SHELBY: Pick out what you think to be the most important quote of the entire book, and do the same steps as above.

The most important quote of To Kill A Mockingbird is: "Well, it's very simple," he said. " Some folks don't- like the way I live. Now I could say the hell with 'em, I don't care if they don't like it. I do say I don't care if they don't like it, right enough- but I don't say the hell with 'em, see? This was said by Dolphus Raymond to Scout and Dill outside the courthouse during the trail on page 200. This is important to the book as a whole because Dolphus is "channeling the spirit" of Atticus, Boo, Bob Ewell, Ms. Maudie, Mrs. Dubose, and other main characters. These people lead their lives the way they want to, and they don't particularly care about what others think of their views and morals. This quote also shows one of the main themes of the book, to not judge people, by Dolphus explaining that he does not care about how he is seen by the white community to Scout and Dill, who do judge him and this teaches them further that they shouldn't. This quote also shows how racism and prejudice is viewed by each community. White citizens of Maycomb were raised to think it's normal, so they live their lives and not caring about what the black community thinks about it and vise versa, like Dolphus Raymond living his life. <span style="color: rgb(255,0,0);"> <span style="font-size: 22px; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">