Valeria's comments and replies on To Kill a Mockingbird Quotes

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The context behind this quote is that Atticus was telling Scout about how not to judge people. This quote is relevant to today’s day because often people judge each other without even knowing what the other person is going through. We need to change that start going by this principle that Atticus told us about.

Valeria C

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In this quote, the context behind it is that Scout gets into trouble with her teacher for knowing how to read. She later says that she never loved reading more than ever up until she had to give it up. This shows us that we never really value what we have unless we start to lose it.

Valeria C

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The context of this quote is that Atticus says this to Scout once he shoots the mad dog. Scout was confused about why Atticus wasn’t proud of being able to hold a gun. Atticus tells her that real courage is not when someone holds a gun. I agree with this quote because we should see courage as something that people earn and have.

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The context of this quote was when Judge Taylor ordered all the women and children to leave the courtroom. This quote means that people think that they want to think. Here Judge taylor said that because he believes that a black man can never be innocent if he is on trail after a white man accused him of raping his daughter. This quote defiantly related to today’s time because people are really biased against people they don’t like. In the book, many people didn’t like black people which is why they were very biased against them.

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#5

The context here is that Atticus was telling his kids that defending a black man for a racially charged trail, is very unpopular in his community. The quote means that a persons conscience should not change based on how many people disagree or do differently than you. In the book, Atticus was getting cancelled for protecting a black person and he could have changed his mind, but his conscience was right so he sticked to what he thought was right.

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#6

Atticus here is telling Scout that you should take out all the unnecessary details, and focus on the facts to get the real and true story other then the exaggerated one. Atticus is pointing out that Jem is exaggerating about school being useless and Atticus tells her that she shouldn’t take his word to the heart but only half listen. This can even apply to daily conversations. We all know that there are people in this world who love to exaggerate and tell different kinds of stories. Sometimes they do it purposefully ybut other times they do it subconscienly. This quote can teach is by not taking everything that is said into consideration. Sometimes we need to just listen to people and then not care or just not bring it close to the heart.

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#7

IN this quote, Scout is revealing to Jem that of how she views the world. This was said the night Atticus lost in court. As we see, Scout doesn’t really want to understand prejudice but she is accepting that it exists. She sees this as a way of saying that everyone is all connected and we are all one person. We just all have different backgrounds. We can take this quote into consideration because we are all the same. We just differ from skin colors and cultures. But deep down inside, we are all the same people and do and say the exact same thing. Jem says that there are 4 different people in this world but Scout says that there is only on kind of person in this world and we are all similar.

Valeria C

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Here Miss Maudie is criticizing the Christains in Maycomb who preach about getting into Heaven but fail to help their own understanding of their fellow human beings. We should take this quote into consideration because she is basically describing hypocrites in this story. We should really stick to what we say and not do the complete opposite of what we say.

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In this quote, the context behind this is that Jem and Scout got gun and they wanted to shoot something. Atticus told them that its a sin to kill mockingbirds because they had never harmed anyone. To translate this quote, mockingbirds are people who are innocent and weak. They are people who never cause anyone harm. But to kill a mockingbird means that you might end up ruiing the person. Tom Robinson could be seen as a mockingbird because he didn’t hurt anyone. He was killed (figuratively and physically). He was killed figuratively by not hurting anyone but he was accused of raping a white girl. He was killed physically by literally getting shot. Getting killed figuratively doesn’t always mean getting accused. It could also mean when you have a dream, and people start putting you down so you just abandon that dream. That is also a sign that you’re “killing” someone in a sense.

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#10

Atticus says this to Scout. He is telling her about the way that the society works and how there are more white people who are less honroable, yet they are being treated better than Africans since they can get away with anything. Sometimes this happens in life. Some people just always get away with anything that they do. SOme people are just treated differently. Whether your mom is your school teacher and she treats you differently than other children or whether your family is royal so you get treated differently and can get away with bad things easier. We can see a relevance here with Bob Ewell and Tom Robinson. Bob Ewell probably raped his own daughter, but just because he was white, he was able to get away with that crime and somebody else payed the price for him. Although at the end of the book he got was he deserved, he still should have really watched his back after that trail.

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#11

Miss Maudie here is saying that people who are smart and intelligent will never brag about their talents. They will always be humble about it. Miss Maudie was talking about Atticus here. We can consider this by being humble with what we have and not bragging about what we have. This was after Atticus shot the dog and the kids were surprised at why Atticus never told them about how he knew how to shoot a gun.

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#12

Scout told Atticus that sometimes people in school might make fun of her because of Atticus. Atticus is telling her that she needs to not pay attention to what they say and to keep her head up high. We can consider this when we hear something bad about us. Especially when it isn’t true. In life, people could spread rumors about you, but that doesn’t mean that you have to pay attention to them. You just need to let it in through one ear, and out the other. This message is shown through Atticus throughout the whole book. Rumors were spread about him but he didn’t care and di his own thing. We should all be a little more like Atticus sometimes.

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#13

Atticus tells Scout that people who insult you with bad words, are just reflecting on themselves. He is saying that when people call you bad names, it just shows how poor they are in spirit. We should take that into consideration and never take anything close to our hearts. We can also see this resembelance in Atticus when we was called a n-lover, he never cared. Yes it could have hurt his feelings, but he never payed attention to them because in the end of the book, all the people who called him names, got what they deserved.

Valeria C

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This quote is told by Atticus to his children. The quote basically means that just because someone lost in the past, doesn’t mean that you should stop trying and not put any effort into helping or changing something. We can consider this because sometimes, when we lose all hope, there is always a way out no matter how far the fall was. For this exact reason, Atticus tried to save Tom Robinson. He wanted to help Tom even though he knew that there was no way of getting out, he was a light and support for Tom in his times of trouble.

Valeria C

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I agree with you here. We often love to judge people before we even get to know them. But that is not always the case and we need to look more for people.

Valeria C

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I agree with you on this 100%. We never know the real worth of what we have up until it's gone. We never know the real value of people around us such as friends and family up until we leave us forever.

Valeria C

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I agree. Atticus is a great example in this story and shows us how we need to act. We need to really stand up for people who need help and not just go along with what others think. We need to stand our own grounds.

Valeria C

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I agree. People were just being baised towards Tom Robinson in this book just because of his skin color. People just want to see what they want to see and they wanted to see Tom Robinson gone, so they did everything they could to make that happed

Valeria C

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We need to apply this quote to real life. Often times, we never speak our minds because we are scared that other people don't think the same way or we are scared of what other people will say. But we need to stand our grounds and know what our opinion is

worth

Valeria C

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People were treated badly everywhere especially Maycomb during those times. Nobody accepted each other for who they were. Blacks were being neglected and white were being treated as if they ruled the world. We should all be accepted into this world no

matter our race, color, or gender.

Valeria C

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Bob Ewell during the case was saying a lot of different things that could be seen as controversies. But just because he was white, he got the pass. If not for his color, he would have been the one dead, not Tom Robinson.

Valeria C

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Many people are like that in the real world and I think it's a problem. We shouldn't be like that and we need to see the world from a different perspective and view others differently too.

Valeria C

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IN the book, Tom could be a symbol of the innocent mockingbird. As Atticus said, it is a sin to kill a mockingbird but it was done either way. Tom shouldn't have died and it should have been Bob in his place.

Valeria C

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We should all take this quote into consideration too because we often boast sometimes, not even thinking that the person next to us could be in a bad life situation. And boasting about something that you personally earned and received fair and square is

allowed, but when you brag about something you got without even trying, then that takes it too far and at that point just don’t speak.