"I wince. 'She's fine.' we both know this is a lie and we both know it's as good as it'll be. My heart is dancing with excitement. I thought I'd spend...

"I pretend like I'm a somewhat normal teenager nothing to worry about at home. No mom stuff." (Chim 18)

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Grew the most - Scout‘“No, everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowin'.’’’ (Lee 259) Scout is intelligent, trustworthy, brave, etc. throughout th...

“‘There's four kinds of folks in the world. There's the ordinary kind like us and the neighbors, there's the kind like the Cunninghams out in the wood...

“Until my father explained it to me later, I did not understand the subtlety of Tom’s predicament: he would not have dared strike a white woman under ...

“‘… what’s rape, Cal?’ ‘It’s somethin‘ you’ll have to ask Mr. Finch about,’ she said.” (Lee141) “What’s rape?” I asked him that night… He sighed, a...

“Atticus had promised me he would wear me out if he ever heard of me fighting anymore… Cecil Jacobs made me forget. He had announced in the schoolyard...

‘Scout, I'm tellin' you for the last time, shut your trap or go home—I declare to the Lord you're gettin' more like a girl every day!’ With that, I ha...

The conflict in this part of the story is Scout’s reading ability. Miss Caroline does not like that Scout is able to read more than the other students...

“‘You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—’ ‘Sir?’ ‘—until you climb into his skin and walk around in it...

Henry believes that the battle is done for him without his soldiers, an army to return to, or the people he recalls, like the priest and Rinaldi. Henr...