•Racism/Prejudice (all chapters)Stereotype –
a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing
• Injustice (chapter 1, 5, 9)Euphemism - a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt. (alternative)
• Poverty/Class Structure (chapters 1-5)Malapropism - the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with unintentionally amusing effect, as in, for example, “dance a flamingo” (instead of flamenco).
• Growing Up (all chapters)Dewey Decimal System – Library Classification
• Courage (many chapters - mainly 11)
Quotes from the novel (know who said it and what it means; most of these tie into the themes):
• “Don’t matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house’s yo’ comp’ny, and don’t you let me catch youremarkin’ on their ways like you was so high and mighty!” (chap. 3)
• “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—until you climb intohis skin and walk around in it.” (chap. 3)
• “There are just some kind of men who—who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learnedto live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” (chap. 5)
• “Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” (chap. 10)
• “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’tnest in corn cribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us.” (chap. 10)
• “The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” (chap. 11)
• “...it’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that
person is, it doesn’t hurt you.” (chap. 11)
• “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in hishand.” (chap. 11)
• "Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to
win." (chap. 9)
1)Calpurnia - class structure and poverty
2)Atticus – tolerance and growing up
3)Miss Maudie – injustice
4)Atticus –
5)Miss Maudie – racism and prejudice
6)Atticus – courage and injustice
7)Atticus – racism and prejudice
8)Atticus – courage
9)Atticus – racism and injustice