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Maycomb Map Quotes
Mapping Maycomb. One of the most important aspects of To Kill a Mockingbird is the physical setting of the story.
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Family
3 children
Helen wife
"She just fell down in the dirt. Just fell down inthe dirt, like a giant with a big foot just camealong and stepped on her." Dill on whenHelen found out Tom had died.
"She just fell down in the dirt. Just fell down inthe dirt, like a giant with a big foot just camealong and stepped on her." Dill on whenHelen found out Tom had died.
Charcateristics
Honest
because he was telling the truth toward thecourt
"That boy'ss worked for me eight years an's I ain'sthad a speck o's trouble outa him. Not a speck."Mr Gilmer
Naive
Because he knew he shouldn'st have gone into awhite woman'ss house
Pittyful
He felt sorry for Mayella
"Yes, suh. I felt right sorry for her, she seemedto try more'sn the rest of 'sem" Tom Robinsonduring the trial
Nonviolent
"He would not have dared strike a whitewomen under any circumstances..." Scoutsthoughts
About Tom
Atticus's client
Accused of Raping Mayella Ewell
"Atticus had used every tool available to freemen to save Tom Robinson, but in the secretcourts of men'ss hearts Atticus had no case. Tomwas a dead man the minute Mayella Ewellopened her mouth and screamed." Racism inMaycomb
"Atticus had used every tool available to freemen to save Tom Robinson, but in the secretcourts of men'ss hearts Atticus had no case. Tomwas a dead man the minute Mayella Ewellopened her mouth and screamed." Racism inMaycomb
Court decided he was gulity
"There'ss something in our world that makesmen lose their heads they couldn'st be fair ifthey tried. In our courts, when it'ss a whiteman'ss word against a black man'ss, the whiteman always wins. They'sre ugly, but those arethe facts of life."
Goes to jail
Tries to escape
gets killed by gun squad
He was sick of white people
"I guess Tom was tired of white men'ss chancesand preferred to take his own" . Or perhapsTom just couldn'st take it any more andsnapped, like Jem with Mrs. Dubose'ss camelliabushes." Atticus on describing how Tom diedto the kids
"I told him what I thought, but I couldn'st intruth say that we had more than a goodchance. I guess Tom was tired of white men'sschances and preferred to take his own." Atticus on what he told Tom before the trial