CHOOSING AND WRITING QUOTES: While you are skimming the novel, notice any lines that seem to illustrate prejudice, Atticus's values, or Maturity. Choose a sentence or several sentences that effectively show one of these themes; write the quote and the page number down.
Use the sample below to show how to embed the quote in a sentence by starting with the context as an introductory phrase (the situation in which the line occurs). Use present tense when discussing events in literature. Make sure you have punctuated and cited the quote correctly.
2. ANALYZING YOUR QUOTE: After choosing the line and blending it carefully, explain the reasons for your choice in writing (several sentences). Why is the line you chose important? What does it show about the Prejudice, Values, Maturity? In other words, what is the author trying to convey to the reader in this quote?
Examples:
In chapter 25, Jem starts to mature and grow up. But Scout just think that “Jem was the one getting more like a girl every day, not [her]” (320). Scout doesn’t realize that Jem is maturing now and starting to be a young man. She also doesn’t realize that her brother is slowly slipping away from their childhood entering the real world. To Scout, Jem is starting to be boring and hanging out with the adults now. I don’t think she understands what’s happening to Jem.
In chapter three, we see Jem already starting to get older, he knows right from wrong now and he doesn't just beat people up for the heck of it, unlike Scout who started beating up Walter and "was rubbing his nose in the dirt [when] Jem came by and told me to stop."(22)After this encounter he invites him over to lunch just to apologies it shows hes growing up.
He and Scout are also suppose to face life's challenges like when they had to walk by Mrs. Dubose's house every now and then on their walk, "Previous minor encounters with her left me with no desire for more, but Jem said I had to grow up some time"(99). Harper Lee is showing them that they are facing their fear rather then ignoring them.
He and Scout are also suppose to face life's challenges like when they had to walk by Mrs. Dubose's house every now and then on their walk, "Previous minor encounters with her left me with no desire for more, but Jem said I had to grow up some time"(99). Harper Lee is showing them that they are facing their fear rather then ignoring them.
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