Quotes


'Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read.

One does not love breathing.'

Harper Lee Scout, in To Kill a Mockingbird, pt. 1, ch. 2, pg. 18 (1960). 

 

Introduction

What is a good novel without some memorable quotes.  Harper Lee provides the reader with a multitude of significant quotes that capture the reader's attention and provoke him/her to ponder the significance and/or the importance of each of them.  Each quote evokes a different emotion and the reader is drawn further into the novels pages. 

 

Quotes

While I was searching for quotes I came across this PDF by C. Williams on Analyzing quotes.  It is a great activity to get your students to understand the significance and importance of a quotation. 

 

Below are couple of links to free online quote sites for the novel TKAM.

 

1.  Here is a link to Wikiquotes.  It is a free online site that has quotations from people, novels and creative works.  The quotes

     have been translated into many different languages.  Click on the links and check out the quotes for To Kill A Mockingbird.

 

2.  Check out these 20 quotes from Book Rags.