To kill a mocking bird - Quote Picker
Posted by hanyoungrok on June 29, 2008
Chapter 1
page 6
-He played with us,read to us, and treated with courteous detachment.
We can know about her(author) father’s personality from this sentence.
page 8
-Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, ans quaint fancies.
It contains that Dill is very active and curious boy. Furthermore, I and Jem want to know about Dill who is a curiosity.
page 12
-”There goes the meanest man ever God blew breath into,”
This phrase is talking about Mr.Radleys. It contains that he is a very ill-natured and malicious.
page 13
-Boo was about six and a half feer tall, judging from his tracks;he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that’s wht his hands were blood-stained - if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time.
This is description of Boo. We can know that Boo looks like fearful and hideous. On top of that, he is a cruel person as he dine on raw squirrels and any cats which he catch.
chapter 2
page 18
-Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shelaces………….,but I had stared at them all the evenings in my memory, listening to the news of the day,Bills To Be Enacted into Laws, the diaries of Lorenzo Dow -
We can know from this paragraph that author was very intelligent. As she can read book without any education. Just listening to the news of the day and read diaries of Lorenzo Dow.
page 21
-My special knowledge of the Cuningham tribe - one branch, that is - was gained from events of last winter. Walter’s father was one of Atticus’s clients. After a dreary conversation in our living room one night about his entailment, before Mr Cunningham left he said, ‘Mr Finch, i don’t know when i’ll ever be able to pay you.’ ‘Let that be the least of your worries, Walter,’ Atticus said.
From this paragraph, we can know that author’s father’s personality. He is a very kind and magnanimous as Mr Cunningham was worried about financial problem, but Atticus said that don’t worry.
chapter 3
page 31
-’until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.’
It means that you understand the other men/women’s position.
-but if Walter and I had put ourselves in her shoes we’d have seen it was an honest mistake on her part.
Aforementioned, it is similar meaning as above sentence. ‘put ourselves in her shoes’ means that you stand in her position.
page 33
-Jem and I were accustomed to our father’s last-will-and-testament diction,and we were at all times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when it was beyond our understanding.
We can know personality of father.Atticus is friendly and obliging to his children
chaper 4 & 5
page 36
-Rather than risk a tangle with Calpurnia, I did as Jem told me.For some reason, my first year of school had wrought a great change in our relationship:Calpurnia’s tyranny, unfairness, and meddling in my business had faded to gentle grumblings of general disapproval. On my part, I went to much trouble, sometime, not to provoke her.
This is a good sentence which describe the situation that I and Calpurnia’s relationship becomes better than before .
page 42
-As the summer progressed, so did our game. We polished and perfected it, added dialogue and plot until we had manufactured a samall play upon which we rang changes every day.
It describes situation that their game becomes more interesting than before as the summer progressed.
page 46
-When I admired them and hoped I would have some eventually, she said, ‘Look here.’ With a click of her tongue she Thrust out her bridgework,a gesture of cordiality that cemented our friendship
We can know from this sentence that Maudie’s personality which is very friendly and benign.
-A chameleon lady who worked in her flower beds in an dld straw hat and men’s coveralls, but after her five o’clock bath she would appear on the porch and reign over the streer in magisterial beauty.
This sentence describes Miss Maudie’s appearance which is expressed in “chameleon”.
chapter 6 (not complete)
pg.57
-”Don’t get in a row of collards whatever you do, they’ll wake the dead.”
It means that it sound so loud that it can wake the dead (figurative)
-I made perhaps one step per minute
she was so carefully to walk
