Atticus essay

Question 1

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PARENTING

• ‘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.’
• ‘if you shouldn’t be defending him then why are you? - ‘if I didn’t then I couldn’t hold my head up in town, I couldn’t even tell you or Jem not to do something again.’

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ATTICUS IN TOWN

• ‘Atticus Finch is the same in his house as he is on public streets’
• ‘Nigger lover is just one of those terms that don’t mean anything… Trashy, ignorant people use it when they think somebody’s favouring negroes over and above themselves’
• ‘you aren’t really a nigger lOver then, are you?’ ‘I certainly am, I do my best to love everybody’

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ATTICUS IN COURT

• ‘in our courts, if it’s a white man’s word against a black mans, the White man always wins. They’re ugly but those are the facts of life.’
• ‘There is no man in this court who has never told a lie, never done an immoral thing and theRe is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire’

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ATTICUS AND BOB

• ‘Atticus put his hands in his pockets and strolled on’
• ‘if spitting in my face and threatening me saved Mayella Ewell one extra beating, that’s something I’ll gladly take.’