| Growing up- Scout grows up learning valuable lessons from the people around her | ‘you never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view’ |
| Growing up- Jem begins to learn compassion and responsibility | ‘Then he rose and broke our only remaining code of childhood’ |
| Growing up- Jem is able to see the human side of Boo and when he finds it the games stop | ‘Im beginning to understand why Boo stays shut up in his house for so long’ |
| Growing Up- Jem is starting to stick up for what he believes is right | ‘Jem shook his head. As Atticus fists went to his hips, so did Jem’s’ |
| Growing Up- Scout learns not to discriminate against others | ‘Most people are when you finally see them’ |
| Growing Up- Jem is more mature in both ours and the adults eyes | ‘Jem and Francis sat with the adults at the dinning table’ |
| Feminity- Jem uses ‘girl’ as an insult to get scout to do things | ‘I declare to the lord your getting more like a girl everyday’ |
| Feminity- Scout doesn’t fit in as a typical Southern Belle | ‘one could be a ray of sunshine in pants’ |
| Feminity- The hobbies associated with certain gender roles are fixed in Maycomb | ‘Boys don’t cook, I laughed at the thought’ |
| Feminity- Scout is constantly being pressured to fit in as a Southern Belle | ‘You wan’t to grow up a lady don’t you? |
| Feminity- In Maycomb woman are regarded as fragile and delicate | ‘There’s been a request that this courtroom be cleared of spectators or at least women and children’ |
| Courage- Atticus is very courageous when he shoots the mad dog | ‘Atticus hand yanked the ball tipped lever as he brought the gun to his shoulder’ |
| Courage- Ms Dubose refuses to die a morphine addict even though it would have caused her a lot less pain | ‘I wanted you to get an idea of what really courage is,instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand’ |
| Courage- Jem shows courage when he tell on Dill even though he knows that both Dill and Scout will hate him for it | ‘Then he rose and broke our only remaining code of childhood’ |
| Justice- When it comes to a black man’s word against a white’s, it clear who the people of Maycomb are going to believe ,Scout is able to see this as well | ‘Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella opened her mouth and screamed’ |
| Justice- Heck Tate believes that what happened to Bob Ewell was justice for leading to Tom’s death | ‘Just this once. Let the dead bury the dead.’ |
| Justice- Jem has a strong sense of justice | ‘How could they do it? How could they?’ |
| Justice- Atticus believes that justice will have a way with catching up to the poeple of Maycomb | ‘Don’t fool yourselves- it’s all adding up… one of these days were going to pay the bill for it.’ |
| Justice- Atticus highlights the importance of justice in court rooms | ‘In our courts all men are created equal’ |
| … | ‘You haven’t even seen this town, but all you gotta do is step into that court house.’ |
| Prejudice- The main prejudice shown in the novel is racial prejudice | … |
| Prejudice- Nearly everyone is prejudice towards Boo Radley | ‘He dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch’ |
| Prejudice- There are also forms of Gender prejudice | ‘Miss Maudie can’t serve on a jury because she is a women’ |
| Prejudice- Aunt Alexandra is prejudice to Walter Cunningham and refuses to let him come round | ‘You can scrub Walter Cunningham till he shines, you can put him in new shoes… but he will never be like Jem’ |
| Prejudice- There is a lot of prejudice to Dolphus Raymond who pretends to be drunk | ‘I try to give them a reason you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason’ |
| Courage- Atticus shows a lot of courage when he takes Tom Robbinsons case | ‘It’s when you know your licked before you begin but you begin anyway’ |
| Innocence- After the trial Jem seems to loose some of his innocence | ‘Im beginning to understand why Boo Radley stayed shut up in his house all the time’ |
| Innocence- Tom is seen as the main symbol of innocence in the book mainly because he didn’t not rape Mayella | ‘Seventeen bullet holes in him. They didn’t have to shot him that much’ |
| Innocence- Boo can also be seen innocent and child like | ‘ He almost whispered it. In the voice of a child who was afraid of the dark’ |
| Innocence- Dill innocence is highlighted when he speaks of Helens reaction to Tom’s death | ‘Fell down in the dirt like a giant with a big foot just came along and stepped on her’ |
| Family- In Maycomb if one member of the family does wrong so do the rest of the family | ‘ We’ll never be able to walk the streets of Maycomb again. He’s ruinin the family that’s what he doin |
| … | ‘the longer that a family had been squatting on one patch of grass the finer it was’ |
| Atticus see’s family as something that runs deeper then blood | ‘I couldn’t have got along without her all these years. She’s a faithful member of this family’ |
| Aunt Alexndra truly cares for her brother | ‘It tears him to pieces. He doesn’t show it much.’ |
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January 27, 2020