Saturday, April 4, 2015

What is a quote from Atticus in To Kill a Mockingbird that has to do with prejudice?However many you want to put is fine, but i really need a good...

Atticus Finch is colorblind when it comes to a man's skin.
He treats all people--black and white--the same, and as Miss Maudie says, "Atticus Finch
is the same in his house as he is on the public streets." Concerning the upcoming trial
of Tom Robinson, Atticus wonders


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"Why reasonable people go stark-raving mad when
anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to
understand."



When Scout uses
the word "nigger" in his presence, Atticus tells her,


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"Don't say nigger, Scout. That's
common."
" 's what everybody at school says."
"From now on, it'll be
everybody less one--"



Atticus
has previously stated that a jury can't be expected to take a black man's word over a
white man's, but in his final summation of the trial, Atticus pleads with the jury to
disregard their racial biases and Tom's skin color. He asks them to do their duty
without passion. Concerning Mayella Ewell's actions, Atticus reminds the jury
that



"She was
white, and she tempted a Negro. She did something that in our society is unspeakable:
she kissed a black man... No code mattered to her before she broke it, but it came
crashing down on her afterwards."


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