Quotes From To Kill A Mockingbird

Mihika Garg

Ms.Panes

English 1A, P4

22 May 2023

Script Although English 1A was just a little part of my high school journey, I believe that it had a prominent impact on my abilities and on me as a student overall. I discovered my love for reading and writing again. I never genuinely liked writing before but after this English class my writing skills have grown and I have found how expressing yourself with words can be so valuable. From reading, I learned lessons that I may have never learned unless I had experienced them. I got to learn from others' mistakes and grow as a person. Every book that I have read in this class had an impact on me and my skills as a reader. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros expresses many themes

Some examples are the themes of prejudice and racial inequity. In this book, we can see many examples of prejudice and racism especially in Tom Robinson's court case and his horrifying death. This quote by Atticus highlights how it will truly never be possible for courts to not view and judge the color of someone's skin. "The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury

This story follows the two main characters George and Lenny throughout their journey, they share a deep bond and a friendship that wasn't very common for two men back then amidst the difficulties and struggles of the Great Depression. We can see this unbreakable bond in friendship described in these two quotes "I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you."-Lennie “Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world... but not us"-George

The theme that inspired me greatly was perseverance. We can see the theme of perseverance throughout all the books we have read. In The House on Mango Street Esperanza has to persevere through all of her challenges and the hardships that she faces. In To Kill a Mockingbird Atticus knows that there's little to no chance of him being able to win the case yet he still perseveres to make this case the strongest as possible to give Tom Robinson the little fighting chance he has. The Odyssey has one of the most prominent themes of perseverance out of all the books we've read. Odysseus never once thinks about giving up because he wants to go home so badly. He inspires his crew members to keep on persevering and move no matter how many challenges they face. In the end, Odysseus does reach his goal after lots of hard work. In Romeo and Juliet both the lovers persevere to be with