To Kill A Mockingbird - Quotes - Chapter 11

WanderingSoul

So, I have lost my copy of To Kill A Mockingbird the day before the English papers.

Can anybody who has studied it help me by finding two quotes from chapter 11? That's the chapter where Jem rips the camellias off her bushes and is forced to read to her as punishment. If I remember correctly the chapter ends with Mrs Dubose dying and a white, waxy camellia being given to Jem. Atticus also explains about the real meaning of courage and Mrs Dubose's battle with morphine.

What I need is:

• the quote where Jem rips off the camellias with Scouts baton.
• the quote where the camellia is handed to Jem after Mrs Dubose dies.
• the quote where Atticus explains about courage.

Thank you.

Colm!

"I wanted to show you what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do" -Atticus Finch

Don't know the others. TO GOOGLE!

EDIT. yo, I left out the part in bold.

WanderingSoul

Thanks Colm!

Reclaimer

"Jem snatched my baton and ran flailing wildly up the steps into Ms Dubose's front yard, forgetting everything Atticus had said, forgetting that she packed a pistol under her shawls, forgetting that if Ms Dubose missed, her girl Jessie probably wouldn't.
He did not begin to calm down until he had cut the tops off every camellia bush Mrs Dubose owned, until the ground was littered with green buds and leaves. He bent my baton against his knee, snapped it in two and threw it down."

There's your first quote, pick whatever you want out of it.

Jem opened the box. Inside, surrounded by wads of damp cotton, was a white, waxy perfect camellia. It was a Snow-on-the-Mountain.
Jem's eyes nearly popped out of his head. "Old hell devil, old hell devil!" he screamed, flinging it down. "Why can't she leave me alone?"
In a flash Atticus was up and standing over him. Jem buried his face in Atticus's shirt front. "Sh-h" he said. "I think that was her way of telling you - everything's all rightnow, Jem everything's all right. You know, she was a great lady."
"A lady?" Jem raised his head. His face was scarlet. "After all those things she said about you, a lady?"

There's the other one. Colm got the third for you

Also, don't forget another important quote from chpt 11: "The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience" - Atticus

I know how strenuous losing your book must be, so I gave large quotes for you to pick and choose, good luck tomorrow morning!

WanderingSoul

Thank you so much! That's a huge weight off my shoulders!

Reclaimer

Do you need any other quotes? While I have the book out, or are your OK for your answer?

bevan619

Is everyone doing this book?

Reclaimer

lol I dunno, quite a few I suppose

WanderingSoul

I think I'll be ok. Thank you so much for your help.

Reclaimer

Glad to help

WanderingSoul

Sorry, I've just thought of two things.

In chapter 12, Jem and Scout go to Calpurnia's church. There is a bit where Scout (I think) asks about the lack of hymn books. Can I get that quote please?

Also, in chapter 24, they find out Tom Robinson has been shot 17 times after a prision escape attempt. What's that exact quote?

Thank you, you have no idea how stressed I was trying to find those quotes!

Colm!

Zeebo rose from his pew and walked down the center aisle, stopping in front of us
and facing the congregation. He was carrying a battered hymn-book. He opened it
and said, “We’ll sing number two seventy-three.”
This was too much for me. “How’re we gonna sing it if there ain’t any hymnbooks?”
Calpurnia smiled. “Hush baby,” she whispered, “you’ll see in a minute.”
Zeebo cleared his throat and read in a voice like the rumble of distant artillery:
“There’s a land beyond the river.”
Miraculously on pitch, a hundred voices sang out Zeebo’s words

“They shot him,” said Atticus. “He was running. It was during their exercise
period. They said he just broke into a blind raving charge at the fence and started
climbing over. Right in front of them—”
“Didn’t they try to stop him? Didn’t they give him any warning?” Aunt
Alexandra’s voice shook.
“Oh yes, the guards called to him to stop. They fired a few shots in the air, then to
kill. They got him just as he went over the fence. They said if he’d had two good
arms he’d have made it, he was moving that fast. Seventeen bullet holes in him.
They didn’t have to shoot him that much. Cal, I want you to come out with me
and help me tell Helen.”

I downloaded the full book, ask me anything.

WanderingSoul

Thank you!

I may have a couple of questions in a sec.

WanderingSoul

In chapter 14, Atticus says Calpurnia is part of the family. What's that exact quote?

In chapter 20, Scout and Dill discover Dolphus Raymund isn't an alcoholic/drunk. What's that exact quote?

In Chapter 29 when Socut realises Boo is the person who saved her and Jem. What's that exact quote?

At the very end in chapter 31 when Atticus reads Scout and Jem to sleep. He reads the Grey Ghost. What's the quote showing he is reading the GG?

Please and thank you. I think that should be everything.

Colm!

Atticus’s voice was even: “Alexandra, Calpurnia’s not leaving this house until she
wants to. You may think otherwise, but I couldn’t have got along without her all
these years. She’s a faithful member of this family and you’ll simply have to
accept things the way they are. Besides, sister, I don’t want you working your
head off for us—you’ve no reason to do that. We still need Cal as much as we
ever did.”

“Dill, you watch out, now,” I warned.
Dill released the straws and grinned. “Scout, it’s nothing but Coca-Cola.”
Mr. Raymond sat up against the tree-trunk. He had been lying on the grass. “You
little folks won’t tell on me now, will you? It’d ruin my reputation if you did.”
“You mean all you drink in that sack’s Coca-Cola? Just plain Coca-Cola?”
“Yes ma’am,” Mr. Raymond nodded. I liked his smell: it was of leather, horses,
cottonseed. He wore the only English riding boots I had ever seen. “That’s all I
drink, most of the time.”
“Then you just pretend you’re half—? I beg your pardon, sir,” I caught myself. “I
didn’t mean to be—”
Mr. Raymond chuckled, not at all offended, and I tried to frame a discreet
question: “Why do you do like you do?”

“Somebody was staggerin‘ around and pantin’ and—coughing fit to die. I thought
it was Jem at first, but it didn’t sound like him, so I went lookin‘ for Jem on the
ground. I thought Atticus had come to help us and had got wore out—”
“Who was it?”
“Why there he is, Mr. Tate, he can tell you his name.”
As I said it, I half pointed to the man in the corner, but brought my arm down
quickly lest Atticus reprimand me for pointing. It was impolite to point.
He was still leaning against the wall. He had been leaning against the wall when I
came into the room, his arms folded across his chest. As I pointed he brought his
arms down and pressed the palms of his hands against the wall. They were white
hands, sickly white hands that had never seen the sun, so white they stood out
garishly against the dull cream wall in the dim light of Jem’s room.

In the text, Scout actually falls asleep before she hears Atticus read The Grey Ghost. Take a look at this passage, see if you can get what you want...

“H’rm,” he said. “The Gray Ghost, by Seckatary
Hawkins. Chapter One…”
I willed myself to stay awake, but the rain was so soft and the room was so warm
and his voice was so deep and his knee was so snug that I slept.
Seconds later, it seemed, his shoe was gently nudging my ribs. He lifted me to my
feet and walked me to my room. “Heard every word you said,” I muttered. “…
wasn’t sleep at all, ‘s about a ship an’ Three-Fingered Fred ‘n’ Stoner’s Boy…”
He unhooked my overalls, leaned me against him, and pulled them off. He held
me up with one hand and reached for my pajamas with the other.
“Yeah, an‘ they all thought it was Stoner’s Boy messin’ up their clubhouse an‘
throwin’ ink all over it an‘…”
He guided me to the bed and sat me down. He lifted my legs and put me under the
cover.
“An‘ they chased him ’n‘ never could catch him ’cause they didn’t know what he
looked like, an‘ Atticus, when they finally saw him, why he hadn’t done any of
those things… Atticus, he was real nice…”

WanderingSoul

Yeah, that works.

Thank you. You and Reclaimer have absolutely saved me.

Kyromancer

Why do you need all these quotes? I thought you only had to have like one or two quotes in your answer. I don't know half as many as that, and they're really short.

WanderingSoul

I usually write my essays in such a way that I write 6 or 7 paragraphs, with the middle ones having usually one quote, sometimes two. Therefore, I generally have at least 4 or 5 per essay. That's just how I'm used to writing them.

I have 6-10 quotes learned per essay so I can pick and choose on the day (character, theme, relationship etc.) and I have quotes for 4 themes, 3 characters. It sounds like a lot but a lot of the quotes overlap (for example Scout's “I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.” I could use for Growing Up, Prejudice, Conflict, Relationships, Scout etc.).

My quotes are 1-2 lines long, usually.

I don't know that many for the drama question though!

whistlin_boy

WanderingSoul wrote: »

I usually write my essays in such a way that I write 6 or 7 paragraphs, with the middle ones having usually one quote, sometimes two. Therefore, I generally have at least 4 or 5 per essay. That's just how I'm used to writing them.

I have 6-10 quotes learned per essay so I can pick and choose on the day (character, theme, relationship etc.) and I have quotes for 4 themes, 3 characters. It sounds like a lot but a lot of the quotes overlap (for example Scout's “I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.” I could use for Growing Up, Prejudice, Conflict, Relationships, Scout etc.).

My quotes are 1-2 lines long, usually.

I don't know that many for the drama question though!

I am going to frighten you and say that quotes are more important in the drama than in the fiction. Also you mind posting up your list of quotes so I can see if I have missed anything?

WanderingSoul

I know, I just hate Romeo and Juliet. I definitely have enough to answer 2 solid character questions or a scene question or a theme question. I just don't have as much choice.

Yeah, just give me a few minutes, I need to sort them out first.

whistlin_boy

Thanks!:D

Jason Styris

A reading of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' is like reading a book of lessons in life. You definitely become a more enriched person after you put the book down. There are so many quotes in the book that convey the philosophy of life. Well, I can’t write all of them here. But I’ll share one of my favorites. It’s towards the end of Chapter 11 after Mrs. Dubose dies. Atticus says that even if Jem had not ruined her garden and thus gone to Mrs. Dubose’s house everyday to read to her, he would have made him go, so that he could `see what real courage is’. Courage is not about using a gun but about fighting for a cause which you believe in even if you know from the start that you’ll probably not win. And in his decision to defend Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a white woman, in the times before the Civil Rights Movement, Atticus Finch provided an example for his children to follow your conscience. I enjoyed reading the selection of quotes from this book on Shmoop!

Luno

Jason Styris wrote: »

A reading of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' is like reading a book of lessons in life. You definitely become a more enriched person after you put the book down. There are so many quotes in the book that convey the philosophy of life. Well, I can’t write all of them here. But I’ll share one of my favorites. It’s towards the end of Chapter 11 after Mrs. Dubose dies. Atticus says that even if Jem had not ruined her garden and thus gone to Mrs. Dubose’s house everyday to read to her, he would have made him go, so that he could `see what real courage is’. Courage is not about using a gun but about fighting for a cause which you believe in even if you know from the start that you’ll probably not win. And in his decision to defend Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a white woman, in the times before the Civil Rights Movement, Atticus Finch provided an example for his children to follow your conscience. I enjoyed reading the selection of quotes from this book on Shmoop!

That's just awesome!